Sample Sentences for
determine
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(editor-reviewed)

determined as in:  is determined to succeed

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    She is determined to find a cure for the disease.
    determined = firmly planning
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    Ron called, his face pale but determined.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    By Sunday, he was still determined not to go back to school.  (source)
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    Mr. Ewell seemed determined not to give the defense the time of day.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    Calvin, his face screwed up with grim determination, did not relax his hold.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Living the way we do would only make him more determined to get somewhere.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    I see determination in Will's eyes that wasn't there before.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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    At least three determined individuals had managed to climb over it since I'd moved in.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    He felt his determination growing, as it had in the days after Uncle's death.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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    It'll all work out, because I'm determined to write!  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    It wasn't until he took up running, an activity that rewards will and determination more than finesse or cunning, that he found his athletic calling.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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    He was determined that Rudy would hit the ground and stay there.  (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
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    The shock of finding the severed leg had left him with a grim determination to close the park, and destroy it.  (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
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determine as in:  determined she is guilty

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    She determined that there was an error in the calculation.
    determined = discovered
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    The board determined that she is not eligible for parole.
    determined = officially decided
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    She uses TurboTax to determine her tax liability.
    determine = figure out (learn or calculate)
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    The issue needs to be determined politically rather than judiciously.
    determined = officially decided
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    "Maybe you should let me determine that myself?" he says.  (source)
    determine = decide
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    "I'll go and have another look," said Marilla, determining to be just.  (source)
    determining = deciding
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    Everything had some kind of predetermined price?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "pre-" means in advance or before as seen in prepay and preschool.
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    But Trina's lawyer failed to file the appropriate motions or present evidence to support an incompetency determination for Trina.  (source)
    determination = official finding or decision
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (it may have been argued) will extend to causes determinable in different modes, some in the course of the COMMON LAW, others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.†  (source)
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    If we want a picture, we have to get a requisition, but if the mind game program determines that the picture is necessary.  (source)
    determines = decides
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    Yet legislative acts are basically judicial determinations, not about the rights of individuals, but about the rights of groups of citizens.  (source)
    determinations = decisions or rulings
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    I mean, how does one determine the sex of a dinosaur, anyway?  (source)
    determine = figure out
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    As George Steiner summarizes it, relativists tend to believe that language is not the vehicle of thought but its determining medium.†  (source)
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determine as in:  this game determines the champion

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The research paper determines 50% of the class grade.
determines = controls
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    The number of days of vacation is determined by years at the company.
    determined = controlled
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    A coin flip determines the outcome.
    determines = controls
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    This game will determine who wins the national championship.
    determine = control
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    That will be your final test, which determines your ranking for stage three.  (source)
    determines = controls
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    "Regular or undetermined?" somebody asked.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undetermined means not and reverses the meaning of determined. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot.†  (source)
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    But today we honor your differences. They have determined your futures. She began to describe this year's group and its variety of personalities,  (source)
    determined = controlled
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    We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.  (source)
    determine = control (how something will turn out)
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    In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.  (source)
    determination = the process of controlling how something turns out
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.  (source)
    predetermined = controlled in advance
    standard prefix: The prefix "pre-" means in advance or before as seen in prepay and preschool.
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    For though they that speak of this subject, use to confound Jus, and Lex, Right and Law; yet they ought to be distinguished; because RIGHT, consisteth in liberty to do, or to forbeare; Whereas LAW, determineth, and bindeth to one of them: so that Law, and Right, differ as much, as Obligation, and Liberty; which in one and the same matter are inconsistent.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" would be replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She determineth" in older English, today we say "She determines." Grammarians might refer to this as third-person, singular, present tense. Note that when "-eth" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is dropped as an liveth and loveth.
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    The fellows in the communications and munitions areas drew lots this morning, to make things orderly and have some excitement as well by predetermining the order of the queue, and by sheer chance I took first place among my rank.†  (source)
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    Weather could be the great determiner between failure and success, the great test of one's staying power.†  (source)
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