All 19 Uses of
establish
in
The Girl Who Played with Fire
- A few days after her first visit she had come back with a bundle of documents which declared that a nonprofit foundation had been established with the sole purpose of assisting the care centre with Palmgren's rehabilitation.
Part 2established = created
- The name had cropped up so many times that the police had started asking questions, trying to establish whether Zala was a real person, and whether he was still alive.†
Part 2establish = show, determine, or understand
- Armansky kept waiting for a link to be established between Salander and the couple in Enskede.
Part 3established = created
- Your assignment, although I may be formulating it a bit vaguely, is to 'establish the truth' about Lisbeth Salander.†
Part 3 *establish = show, determine, or understand
- In my view, we have a responsibility to establish the truth.†
Part 3
- Your principal assignment as far as Milton is concerned is to establish the truth.†
Part 3
- Unlike the police, however, Blomkvist was not primarily interested in establishing a reasonable scenario for why Salander might have gone down to Enskede and murdered two of his friends.
Part 3 *establishing = creating
- On the night she attacked him and established control over his life, she had taken the spare set of keys to his office and apartment.†
Part 1
- Well-established ones.†
Part 2
- It's not often that a researcher can establish roles along gender lines so clearly.†
Part 2
- The questions were relentless as they tried to establish the time frame.†
Part 3
- You've just established a link between Salander and the murder victims.†
Part 3
- "That's something we'll establish in due course," Bublanski said patiently.†
Part 3
- What Armansky and Blomkvist had told him painted a very different picture from the one established by medical experts over several years of study.†
Part 3
- Today the National Forensics Laboratory established that this gun was the murder weapon.†
Part 3
- One of the failures in the treatment of Lisbeth Salander was that no complete diagnosis was ever established for her.†
Part 3
- I was already established, and the club's junior leader thought I'd be a big draw, so I'd come in afternoons and spar with the guys.†
Part 4
- Since Maundy Thursday, nothing had existed for him but to find out who had murdered his friends and somehow to establish Salander's innocence.†
Part 4
- A brief exchange of emails with Milton's payroll office established that Niklas Hedström had left the company, effective immediately.†
Part 4
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)