Example Sentences

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Jurors have been determining how much of his likely nine-figure fortune he must pay to the parents of a victim of the Sandy Hook school massacre for defaming them and their late son.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

“So far, weather and precipitation have been determining California’s water use instead of our collective drive to conserve,” a board report about the May numbers read.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2022

The rover’s primary mission was to have been determining whether Mars ever hosted life.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

“Landowners have been determining the shape of cities for centuries, and the idea of housing as a commodity—even as a financial asset—is not exactly state of the art,” Stein writes.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2019

For more than a decade, scientists have been determining the potential for climate change to alter the spread of infectious diseases.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017