Example Sentences

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Personal wounds and power struggles between the two men are defining how the world encounters the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

All eight of the nominees for best new artist then got their chance to shine in an extended segment celebrating "emerging talents who are defining music's zeitgeist".

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

Then some estimates differ because the analysts are defining the shortage in a completely different way.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025

It ignited my interest in two emerging fields that are defining the future of medical science: food as medicine and microbiome therapeutics.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

I told her that I was taught never to use the word you are defining in its definition and that she ought to think of a substitute word for letter if she is defining it.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg