determiners
- plural of determiner.
Example Sentences
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"Supermarket buyers are some of the most powerful determiners of national diet."
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2016
Their impact is less significant in many developed countries, but they are important determiners of mortality in developing countries.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
In the white variety all the germ cells are alike in lacking this determiner; blackness is entirely absent and all their descendants are formed from germ cells entirely without black determiners.
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.
