All 10 Uses of
establish
in
The Bourne Ultimatum
- Other names-MIAs established as never having been in combat … eight investigating personnel from the inspector general's office.
*established = found (proved)
- Mr. Pritchard, we've established that your nephew overheard a telephone conversation between John St. Jacques and his brother-in-law, the American Mr. David Webb.
established = proven or shown
- The object of controlled surveillance is to expose those who shadow others so as to establish their identities or take them into custody, whichever suits the strategy.†
- If it was ever established that Washington was behind Medusa, the reputation of some very important people in the White House and the State Department would be ruined.†
- Which was why Alex Conklin telephoned him after a generally overindulgent lunch-also established-with an "update" of the Snake Lady crisis.†
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- Among them was to lay aside an immediate law career-better none than with an inferior firm, or, God forbid, a private practice with the sort of clients he was bound to attract, namely, those who could not afford established attorneys.†
- Thanks to the old man's "magic papers," Jax had gotten his brother and sister out of Jamaica during the repressive Manley years when established professionals were all but prohibited from emigrating and certainly not with personal funds.†
- And I assume that due to foreign entanglements you're working backwards into a domestic conspiracy that should be incontestably established before you alert the guardians of domestic accord, namely, the Federal Bureau.†
- The identities are established, the destinations as well.†
- Once I was established, did you ever lack for anything?†
Definitions:
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(1)
(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2)
(establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)