Example Sentences

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“He has been defining his own agenda, much of it overlapping with his father’s interests and passions,” says Sir Anthony.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

Another complication with tracking the donations has been defining what ‘racial equity funding’ really means.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021

Chappelle was of course mainly there to be himself — much of the work of his career has been defining just who that is — and he did exactly that in a 16-minute opening monologue.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2020

CalSTRS has been defining diversity to date as relating to “skills, background, experience, age, gender, cultural and ethnic composition.”

From Forbes • Feb. 20, 2015

And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday Night Live in 1976, has been defining the would-be-hip U.S. male -- the frat fellow with wit.

From Time Magazine Archive