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Example sentences for: defines

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As the interview progresses, however, Lewinsky defines her "part" in the fiasco narrowly, leaving others to account for "what happened."
My house dictionary defines ensorcel , matter-of-factly, “bewitch, enchant,” dates the word from the 16th century, spells it with one “1” or two, but doesn't say why anyone would disinter it.
"Organic intellectual" is not strictly identical with "public intellectual," of course, and one wonders whether Russell Jacoby understands who exactly he's signed up to teach, given his understanding of the term "public intellectual" (in The Last Intellectuals he defines it as one who writes with "vigor and clarity," not as an activist or left-wing scholar).
We show that the carboxy-terminal β-barrel domain of the H subunit of the photosynthetic reaction center defines a novel all-β-sheet fold, representatives of which are widespread throughout the prokaryotic world.
That kind of pawkiness is fitting in a dictionary edited and published in Edinburgh and which defines pawky as a Scots word meaning “drily or slyly humorous.”