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easy to see or understand
a well-defined boundary well-defined policies
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Recent Examples of well-defined
The difference between mental ‘wellness’ and clinical care The most profound finding the team discovered during the year running Yara AI, according to Braidwood, is that there’s a crucial distinction between wellness and clinical care that isn’t well-defined.
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Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
This means that measures such as how well-defined your schema is, and how accessible information is through APIs, could be critical.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Support is well-defined by the 200-day MA, currently rising on the chart near $61.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
Every squad member has his role well-defined — and accepted.
—Pol Ballús, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
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Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
This means that measures such as how well-defined your schema is, and how accessible information is through APIs, could be critical.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Support is well-defined by the 200-day MA, currently rising on the chart near $61.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
Every squad member has his role well-defined — and accepted.
—Pol Ballús, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for well-defined
Adjective
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Their film casts a lucid, uncompromising, yet deeply necessary light on the spiral of violence.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps not lucid dreams, but elucidating ones.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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For areas south and east of the city, a change to plain rain is anticipated before clearing later in the night.—
Matthew Villafane,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Once the burners are completely cool, use a cloth dampened with plain water to wipe off the spill.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Fictional dialogue has to strip all that away and compress meaning into digestible chunks that readers actually want to consume.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2026
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Made from a digestible mixture of cellulose, gelatin, and molybdenum or tungsten, the capsule works as a tiny Faraday cage, blocking RF communication.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Feltner’s routine was pretty simple.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
12 Feb. 2026
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Crime 101 takes the same view of quid pro quo as the most basic form of American commerce and makes simple but brutal points about value and self-worth, where your car, its year, make and model, matters more than your resumé.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Under pressure from governments, including threats of bans and fines, X restricted Grok’s ability to generate certain explicit images last month.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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No explicit demands were left at the scene of the crime, but the crime is believed to have been a kidnapping.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Feb. 2026
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McDonald said a clear motive was not identified, nor was a specific target.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Feb. 2026
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Earlier this week, after lawmakers said the names of several high-profile figures had been concealed in the documents without clear legal reasons, the department also moved to un-redact more than a dozen additional names.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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They're exhausted by the constant airing of grievances having little to do with what's actually going on in the country, and by the broad generalizations about, well, everything, that ignore context, nuance and facts to promote a political viewpoint.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Her analysis further suggests that a sanctions-relief agreement that leaves Iran’s broader capabilities intact could stabilize the regime at a moment of internal pressure while preserving its military leverage.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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New research shows that people with obesity host a distinct oral microbiome compared to individuals at a healthy weight.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Feb. 2026
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Here are 10 facts that make Presidents’ Day a distinct, and often misunderstood, national holiday.—
Tiago Ventura,
Time,
14 Feb. 2026
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