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as in definiteness
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as in validity
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Recent Examples of definitiveness
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.
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Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for definitiveness
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Under the resolution, initiatives attributed to Ramallah to create a parallel land registry in Area C were declared to have no legal validity or standing.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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Lindell is a longtime Trump ally who has also boosted false conspiracies about the validity of the 2020 election results.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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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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The company cites this as an example of how changes in content structure and credibility signals may influence AI visibility.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Seeing a real person use a product adds credibility.—
Wyles Daniel
June 4,
Idaho Statesman,
4 June 2026
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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
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The iron determinacy of combustion; the vagaries of human capacity and choice.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
9 May 2017
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Thus, as the NCAA sees it, the statements lack the necessary authoritativeness of a medical professional.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, and more strictly on the consumer end of the equation, the influencer’s standing within the social media sphere continues its upward ascendancy in cultural authoritativeness, even in architecture.—
Richard Olsen,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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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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Forbes College Financial Grades are designed to assess a private not-for-profit college’s operational soundness and balance sheet health using the following ten measures.—
Matt Schifrin,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Florida lawmakers passed stricter laws for structural soundness and greater condo board transparency.—
Joan Murray,
CBS News,
22 May 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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“Definitiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definitiveness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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