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past tense of determine
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Recent Examples of determined
Adjective
Kalina remains determined to one day grace the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 20 June 2025 This requires determined effort to challenge existing norms and assumptions, before devising new approaches. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 20 June 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
  • Like most political arguments, each stakeholder adopts a resolute adversarial position that disallows finding common ground.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
  • In statements reported by state media on Sunday, China’s top political adviser Wang Huning echoed Beijing’s position, calling for the promotion of national reunification with Taiwan and for resolute opposition to Taiwan independence.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Death doesn’t scare the body because all the body wants is to lie on the couch with a golf tournament on TV but the mind is drip, drip, drip, drip, relentless.
    Campbell McGrath, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • On Pressing Onward, Freedia is creating her own religious experience of sorts — one that marries the powerful peaks and sonorous valleys of gospel with the irrepressible, relentless energy of bounce.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Horton decided to talk on the record, in part because she's left the legal profession.
    Carrie Johnson, NPR, 1 Mar. 2025
  • After careful consideration, David decided to step away.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Prevost joined an institution founded on those principles.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
  • Lululemon was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1998 and has emerged as a leading retailer in the fashionable athletic space.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 1 July 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
  • President Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday that China can keep buying Iranian oil, a signal the U.S. was not intent on maximizing pressure on Iran's economy.
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 24 June 2025
  • Ergo, the footwear manufacturers who are intent on scaling operations using these machines aren’t doing so on a whim.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite the grim topic, the report offers encouraging news: Steady progress has been made in reducing child labor globally.
    Fatma Tanis, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • Gatwa’s first as the Doctor. Compare Season 15 to Jodie Whittaker’s last outing as the Time Lord, and things get grimmer.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 June 2025

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“Determined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/determined. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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