definitional
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The definitional creep of what we now consider middle age—pushed back, perhaps, because of the increasing delay in starting families—means that it often overlaps with the territory of old age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
“Nor has the Government adequately identified which particular provisions, if any, are sufficiently independent of the enjoined definitional provision and thus might be able to remain in effect,” reads the ruling.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 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 Boyd H. Bode
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