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past tense of determine
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Recent Examples of determined
Adjective
And not only does her role as Alison, a smart and determined deaf woman who works in a police canteen and gets recruited to use her lip-reading skills in a covert operation, redefine how deaf characters can be featured on screen. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025 Upon investigation, all 11 passengers were determined to be undocumented and were detained on the spot. Danamarie McNicholl, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
Verb
Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2025 Here’s how to find out The Association for the City of La Jolla is collecting petition signatures in a two-week blitz through the end of this month to try to fill the gap between the number of signatures determined to be valid and the number needed to continue its campaign for La Jolla cityhood. Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for determined
Recent Examples of Synonyms for determined
Adjective
  • The closest thing that comes to mind is probably Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, although this is Malick by way of Jane Campion and Michael Haneke, shifting between fleeting coming-of-age moments and scenes of resolute darkness and human cruelty.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
  • It was never sold in the U.S. thanks to the unwavering objections of a resolute reviewer at the FDA named Frances Oldham Kelsey.
    David Armstrong, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • The only sober attendees are a father (Sergi López) and his young son (Bruno Núñez) who are hoping to find the boy’s sister, a bohemian swept up in the relentless rhythm of this road-tripping bacchanalia.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • There remain few stronger recent-history illustrations of that threat than the case of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist noted for her relentless exposure of government corruption and harmful policies, particularly around the Second Chechen War.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • Horton decided to talk on the record, in part because she's left the legal profession.
    Carrie Johnson, NPR, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The Eastern Conference front-runners split their four-game season series, with all four decided by seven points or fewer.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
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  • Merlin founded the Perpetual Path Foundation, whose goal is to create quality financial education content for students.
    William Jones, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • The program was founded by Mary Jane Hender, a reading specialist with a doctorate in education, and the Rev. Gordon Butcher, a Presbyterian minister and reading activist.
    Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The mold company's report also concluded that the Wright's apartment was uninhabitable and that the Wright's belongings needed to be replaced due to extremely high levels of mold, the lawsuit said.
    Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In 2023, Beyoncé officially concluded the Renaissance era with the release of a feature-length documentary that chronicled the making and execution of its accompanying stadium tour.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The agency also has opened or settled hundreds of charges against Amazon.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The couple returned to the states in 1952, settled in Dayton and had two children.
    Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • If the players were intent on sticking to their set routines, chairman Steve Parish was the opposite.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee returned to meeting online this week, and though its first meeting back on Zoom since the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t go as smoothly as hoped, the board is intent on sticking to the virtual format.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • India claims to have targeted militant infrastructure, but the reality is grim: at least 26 Pakistani civilians -including women and a young child were reported killed in the strikes.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • Sitting in on India press conferences can often be a bit grim, carefully orchestrated by the team's hierarchy and little is usually given to their hungry press corps.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025

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“Determined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/determined. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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