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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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Though their claims were the basis of the Amityville Horror franchise, the validity of the Lutzs' story has been heavily debated over the years.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Kinloch also has questioned the validity of a precipitous decline in violent crime reported by Detroit police last year.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Then there’s Frederik, a mercurial sort who’s a truth teller and can sometimes be found conducting loud classical music while cooking a gourmet meal.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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As other seemingly unconnected incidents start to happen around her (one friend goes missing, another is attacked), conspiracies are everywhere and Chloe must try to separate truth from fiction while fearing for her life.—
Kate Belli,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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The collective failure to scrutinize this evidence, Zumot argued, deprived a jury of the opportunity to fairly assess his credibility and the prosecution’s case against him.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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When a leader calls something a transformation that is designed to be more incremental, that leader loses trust, credibility, and respect.—
Brené Brown,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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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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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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Thank you for your demanding, lyrical, and sensual body of work, and for your fidelity to the light itself.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2025
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But to read the play, from 1890, in advance is to marvel at the combination of fidelity and freedom, of interpretation and imagination, that Nia DaCosta, the film’s writer and director, brings to bear.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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The move also was met with criticism elsewhere, ranging from the soundness of the Argentinian political and economic system to the White House’s use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund for the liquidity measure.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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Pulte’s official job is director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he’s entrusted with the dull but critical task of ensuring the soundness of the mortgage market.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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So woke and political correctness are basically the same thing.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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In contrast, today there are many million individual pieces of evidence in every branch of biology, all of which support and none of which refute the essential correctness of Darwin’s theory.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Definitiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definitiveness. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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