determining

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These structures operate at an incredibly small scale, but they play a major role in determining how genes are turned on or off.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Spain's health ministry said officials were determining which passengers required urgent evacuation from Cape Verde, where the ship was docked.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

The difficulty of determining exactly when infrastructure will need to be updated is part of the reason the Governmental Accounting Standards Board has so far declined to define future infrastructure costs as a liability.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

By determining which media — or “torch,” as they’re called — “amplifies light,” an undefined expression that asks each person to vote based on their values.

From Salon • May 3, 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