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Recent Examples of determinacy
Those principles, along with historical analysis, will resolve a great deal of apparent under-determinacy.
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J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
The iron determinacy of combustion; the vagaries of human capacity and choice.
—Longreads, 9 May 2017
J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
The iron determinacy of combustion; the vagaries of human capacity and choice.
—Longreads, 9 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for determinacy
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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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The Quiet Shift From Accuracy To Acceptability Work was once evaluated on correctness, with verification built into the process.—
Beth Worthy,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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The franchise abandoned it in July 2020 amid much political correctness pressure.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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Social integrity becomes dependent on the conditions under which societies produce and validate truth.—
Hamilton Mann,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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The inescapable truth is that LA has a housing shortage, which our City Council has been aware of for a long time.—
Henry Mantel,
Daily News,
27 May 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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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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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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“Determinacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/determinacy. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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