definitional
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Millennial TV is reaching its definitional upper limit.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“Democracy is audacious, fragile, hopeful, experimental—and definitional to the United States,” the exhibition says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
To judge by the Forum crowd on Wednesday, Deftones have never been bigger, or more definitional for what young people want out of heavy music in all its gradients.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
“The goal here is to narrow these definitional issues and to present a united front to the Chinese.”
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023
In the stricter definitional sense of the word, there is no such thing as "living matter" or "dead matter," as we have before claimed.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
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