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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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Intelligence officials have raised doubts regarding the validity of that document.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Legal experts note that autopen use is acceptable so long as the president directs it, but Trump insists its deployment in Biden’s final days undermines the validity of those actions.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Personal truth meets public image pressure.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Rather, the wretched truth is a reminder that history’s wins are often, if not always, accompanied by terrible loss — that, sometimes, what was cast as victory may have actually been defeat.—
Andrea Williams,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
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Its credibility will rest on who is chosen to serve.—
Vilas Dhar,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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Damaging the Fed’s credibility could interfere with one of the institution’s core missions of keeping inflation in check, the brief said.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 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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Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new photonic router capable of directing quantum information with over 99% fidelity, a key benchmark for the construction of a future quantum internet.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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The graphical fidelity adds to the horror, as the fear and terror that takes over Hinako's face during cutscenes is spine-tingling.—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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These secessions—each driven by a loss of faith in the scientific soundness of the CDC’s recommendations—seem designed to destroy the agency’s credibility.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2025
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Advocates for the Fed argue that the soundness of the banking system is interconnected with the country’s financial stability, part of the Fed’s mission as an institution.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 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 30 Sep. 2025.
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