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Recent Examples of definer
The government as a primary definer of news also illustrates this interdependence.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.
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Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Other products include a heat protectant spray, a wave and curl definer, shampoos of different molecular weights, a texturizing spray and more.
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Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.
—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Other products include a heat protectant spray, a wave and curl definer, shampoos of different molecular weights, a texturizing spray and more.
—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for definer
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But the earliest roots of the word in the early 1500s have very little to do with summer recreation, according to Jennifer Hurd, an editor and lexicographer from the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Stamper, a lexicographer and former editor at Merriam-Webster, charts the history of how thousands of colors came to be defined in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.
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Haber is a writer, editor and publishing strategist, and co-founder of the Ink Book Club on Substack.
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On a recent commute to the Allure office, commerce market editor Sarah Hoffmann picked up a new base routine from Laura Mercier and rediscovered the joys of loitering in a Sephora.
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Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
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As a cognitive scientist and linguist, a lot of my research training is about symbols and about the construction of identity in that way.
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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