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by definition
According to prior determination, as a given. For example, This antibiotic is by definition the most effective now on the market. [1970s]
Example Sentences
Notice: He wasn’t warning of a forceful response to violent protesters—just to “people that want to protest,” who, he claimed, by definition, “hate our country.”
“If you are commander in Gilead, then you are by definition this toxic, poisonous force that needs to be rooted out from top to bottom.”
“By definition, you can’t just decide to choose your rivalry because one team gets good,” veteran third baseman Max Muncy said.
And, of course, celebrity is this lifestyle that by definition is unobtainable.
Calling squash a fruit wears me out a little, but, okay botanists, with your genus-species-variety nomenclature, I concede: by definition, squash is indeed a fruit.
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