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by definition

  1. According to prior determination, as a given. For example, This antibiotic is by definition the most effective now on the market. [1970s]



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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.”

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“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.”

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“By definition, you can’t just decide to choose your rivalry because one team gets good,” veteran third baseman Max Muncy said.

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And, of course, celebrity is this lifestyle that by definition is unobtainable.

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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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