Example Sentences

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By following these steps, you will have defined your purpose, and you can create effective and meaningful speech.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Whatever constraints the deal finally sets will have defined time limits.

From Washington Times • Mar. 2, 2015

The legislator will have defined it either incorrectly or not at all; it is at this point that the task becomes appalling.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)