Example Sentences

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For now, the key is determining whether you’re even allowed to make this type of conversion.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

The challenge is determining how to structure such a complex transaction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The next step is determining whether reproducing this unexpected distribution is itself computationally difficult or whether the observed errors caused the device to lose its 'quanutmness'.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

One complication for doctors at Nasser Hospital now is determining which of the returned bodies are Hamas fighters killed in combat, which are civilians and which are detainees who died in Israeli custody.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

The tricky part is determining where the other punctuation marks go: inside or outside the closing parenthesis.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner