definitional
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“Democracy is audacious, fragile, hopeful, experimental—and definitional to the United States,” the exhibition says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Sacramento-raised metal band has never been bigger, or more definitional for what young people want out of heavy music.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
And because "weird" can mean so many different things, it baits those who feel attacked into dumb definitional debates.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024
“The goal here is to narrow these definitional issues and to present a united front to the Chinese.”
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023
But sublime adventurers, logically unregenerate and uninitiated, will go on sailing westward to the confusion and confounding of all definitional systems that leave them out of account.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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