definitively
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Definitively linking longer fire seasons to anthropogenic climate change, as this paper does, is “a study I’ve been hoping someone would do for a long time,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Definitively proving insects mentally feel pain probably isn’t possible, agrees Jennifer Mather, a zoologist and cephalopod expert at the University of Lethbridge whose studies helped prove those animals are sentient.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 25, 2022
Definitively determining who was behind the sites is difficult because Psy-Group and other organizations involved in anti-B.D.S. work used avatars and other tactics to disguise their involvement.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2019
Definitively measuring the risks of shocking a pregnant woman is impossible: There has never been a controlled study of the Taser’s effects on pregnant women.
From Reuters • Feb. 7, 2018
My dear Sir, Definitively I have written a little Paper upon Omar with some Quotations taken here and there at random, avoiding only the too badly sounding rubayát.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
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