determining

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Their first game with No. 11 Croatia in suburban Dallas will go a long way toward determining who wins the group.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Around 12.9 million students nationwide registered for this year's "gaokao", according to the Ministry of Education, which for most is the sole determining factor in admission to a Chinese university.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

The team also discovered that temperature plays a key role in determining both the strength and direction of the electrical voltage produced by the material.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

“There is no evidence that the Board took account of its full range of statutory obligations in determining that a wholesale shuttering of the Kennedy Center was appropriate,” Cooper wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Alternatively, mathematics is sometimes endowed with a coercive character which is somehow capable of determining our future.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos