determinants

plural of determinant

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Recent Examples of determinants In their perspective published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine, a veterinarian and an oncologist quickly point out the social determinants of health at play in this scenario. Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 31 Aug. 2026 One of us is a social epidemiologist who studies the social and structural determinants of health, and the other is a prevention scientist who studies risk and protective factors among young people. Jonathan Wright, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026 The article emphasizes that daily life conditions and behaviors within the home, not just clinic visits, are primary determinants of well-being. Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Serlie and colleagues are now studying determinants of weight loss success after bariatric surgery. Crystal Gwizdala, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026 But the costs of the race will also be destiny determinants, as investors question the massive sums of capital being deployed and the timeline for seeing a return on the investment. Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 July 2026 Because even if Anthropic wanted to play that role, being both the provider of a hackable service and the blocking of cyberterrorists, the insurance companies, the determinants of who gets coverage, would never allow it. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 July 2026 Both parameters were identified as the most important determinants of the fill factor at low voltage losses. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026 Some count ratings or awards as determinants of quality, while count changes to policy and laws or special commissions of inquiry. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for determinants
Noun
  • Those factors help determine which exposures warrant commercial transfer and which the company can retain or finance through another structure.
    Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Iren's neocloud contracts are now valued at $15 to $20 per watt or higher, depending on their duration and the extent of graphics processing unit generation, among other factors, per JPMorgan.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Alongside these resources, the NPD Hydro portal hosts the NPD Insights catalog for site rankings, as well as the NPD Toolkit, which models payback periods while weighing environmental, community, and electrical grid considerations.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The Giants might get something like cash considerations, a player to be named later or perhaps a teenager who is a half-decade away from even thinking about the majors.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Israel has traditionally avoided official dialogue with far-right parties in Europe, where many factions have direct antecedents in post-Second World War neofascist movements.
    Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Her model suggests that antecedents, physiological state and consequences continuously influence one another, with behavior emerging as the result of that interaction.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026

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“Determinants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/determinants. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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