define
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The company said BioWare was "a legendary studio that helped define the role-playing genre, and we do not take this decision lightly".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
"I heard Jan saying that we are open for learning, but not in setting precedent. Please do not define the boundaries for learning," said Pakistan's Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, in comments endorsed by others.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
A better question is: how would any ex-backup quarterback, paid to define what a good, great, or elite quarterback looks like, know what that quarterback actually looks like?
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
“It’s really special for a property to define their first residency with a band like Maná,” said Dixon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
I can’t properly define that Orgota word here translated as “commensal,” “commensality.”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The statute defines “videotape service provider” to include any person in the business of delivering “prerecorded video cassette tapes or similar audio visual materials.”
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
That devastation defines the region Ukraine has just recaptured.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Written with an unmistakably Caribbean verve and snappy, conversational meter, Carrero defines his stance on Cuba in no uncertain terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
"There's no magic line" dictating what defines a nation, he told AFP, but noted Alberta's case for nationhood appears harder to make than that of other groups, like Catalans, Scots and French-speaking Canadians in Quebec.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
“It’s the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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President Bola Tinubu kicked off his re-election campaign Saturday promising "a better tomorrow" as Nigeria prepares to head to the polls in a vote set to be defined by the rising cost of living.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Smith says the AI era won’t follow the familiar boom-and-bust pattern that has defined many investment cycles such as telecom and the dot-com era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Defendants from certifying any result that may be impacted by voter confusion, as defined above, pending an investigation to determine whether votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan were meant to be cast for Senator Sullivan.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
One dalton is defined as one-twelfth the mass of a carbon-12 atom.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
This being the South, however, another element defined their world: race.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Finally, after his years of work, came the defining moment.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
And, the defining feature, cold-gas rocket thrusters that jumped the car over a line of vehicles while doing a midair barrel roll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
High-stakes conflicts over artificial intelligence, data privacy, workplace culture, antitrust laws and other issues are dominating the news and defining our modern era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
I also think Elon Musk, having seen the ascent of Steve Jobs, was sort of defining himself in that way too – or going back to Thomas Edison, who had his own P.T.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Briony resisted because she wanted to chase in solitude the faint thrill of possibility she had felt before, the elusive excitement at a prospect she was coming close to defining, at least emotionally.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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