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Noun
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Those principles, along with historical analysis, will resolve a great deal of apparent under-determinacy.—
J. Joel Alicea,
National Review,
3 May 2022 -
The iron determinacy of combustion; the vagaries of human capacity and choice.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
9 May 2017
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The goal here is not to inform or educate, to listen or process, to build or intellectualize but to win, to own, to dunk on, to break the opponent’s brain, to spawn an argument of such devastating definitiveness that the matter can be considered, once and for all, closed.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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Her belief in a universal truth was not unique, but her pursuit of it was relentless and oddly self-erasing.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
3 June 2026
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The time traveler hopes to warn him and save his life, but is confronted with a painful truth.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2026
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That character’s name alone — like the resurgence of Doofy — is an indication of the mirth the screenwriters take from skewering political correctness, cancel culture and social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeTo.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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Prioritize systems that ensure correctness, even if that means sacrificing conversational elegance in high-stakes moments.—
Jerry Haywood,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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In the 2010 study by Watson and Strayer published in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 200 participants were tested in a high-fidelity driving simulator while performing simultaneous cognitive tasks.—
Allison Palmer,
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2026
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University of Utah researchers Jason Watson and David Strayer put 200 people in a high-fidelity driving simulator and asked them to perform a second demanding cognitive task simultaneously.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
27 May 2026
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The ubiquity and strictness of regulation has real business impacts.—
Francesca Cassidy,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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And there’s little strictness about ideological consistency.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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If the Sun is high in the lunar sky during the flyby, there will be few shadows, and the crew will be looking for subtle variations in surface color and rightness.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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This sense of rightness — imperfect, but clarifying — is what gout offers as diagnosis.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Inspired by museum collections and Art Deco design, the geometry and exactness of bold shapes in earthy tones are captivating.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Definiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definiteness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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