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am defining

  • present progressive of define (1st person singular).

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Since psychologists use of the term ego is very different ways, let me be clear how I am defining it here.

From Scientific American May 26, 2018

“I am listening and I am learning and I am defining ways in which I think I will be able to have an impact,” Trump said.

From The Guardian Apr. 25, 2017

For the self-investigator, there is no bottom, in large part because self-investigation — as I am defining it here — is confined to the internet.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2016

OK, guys, I am defining the first half-hour of every day.

From Slate May 14, 2012

I am defining the total nature of things in a way that carries practical consequences with it as decidedly as if I write a treatise De Natura Rerum in twenty volumes.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William