definitively
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Taylor Farms used the revision to push back on the idea that its lettuce had been definitively identified as the source; federal officials, though, maintained that the broader epidemiological and traceback evidence still pointed there.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meanwhile, the agency last summer scuttled Capricor’s treatment for patients with advanced Duchenne muscular dystrophy because it claimed its randomized control trial for patients was too small to determine definitively that the treatment worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"My hope is that we prove to players over time that this is definitively a good thing for the game and the community," Steranka says.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The question definitively answered here is whether more schools should be emphasizing project learning over rote memorization and teaching to the test.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The truth is that this is not a question that I—or anyone else, for that matter—can answer definitively.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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