definitive answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdefinitiveandanswer
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definitive
adjective
uk/dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/us/dɪˈfɪn.ə.t̬ɪv/
not able to be changed ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition ofdefinitiveandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Only this will give us thedefinitiveanswer.
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We have nodefinitiveansweras to why this is an advantageous way to organize the brain, but we will offer a speculation.
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The consequences of adefinitiveanswerto this question forced the administration to attempt to suppress the question at the spring conference.
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Without knowing more about the particulars -for instance, about engineers'concepts of pendulums - one cannot dare to give adefinitiveanswerin this case.
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Standard second-best analysis tells us that there is nodefinitiveanswerto this normative question.
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Adefinitiveanswerawaits further work; however, available evidence from prior translational studies identifies some preliminary possibilities.
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Her various physicians are unable to give her adefinitiveansweras to what caused her stroke.
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For each question, adefinitiveanswermust be arrived at before a child may advance.
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Not even the most detailed court rolls give anydefinitiveansweras to why tenants chose to surrender or alienate their property to non-kin.
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Surveying the dearth of sources on this issue in fact warns against arriving at adefinitiveanswerto this question.
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We cannot provide adefinitiveanswerthough parietal regions are implicated in vocabulary loss.
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Although these findings make a persuasive case for elective caesarean delivery, adefinitiveanswerwill only be provided by a prospective randomised clinical trial.
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The volume evaluates this evidence carefully and is rightly cautious in accepting this as adefinitiveanswer.
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There is nodefinitiveansweras to the best overall combination and the order in which drugs should be commenced.
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When modelling, there is usually nodefinitiveanswerto the question of which is the ' best' modelling approach.
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Even then, it is not possible to find adefinitiveanswerto the question of its core meaning.
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Question recipients also do work to provide answers, even when they are not truly able to provide adefinitiveanswer.
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Without knowing more about the particulars - for instance, about engineers'concepts of pendulums - one cannot dare to give adefinitiveanswerin this case.
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