Sentence examples for the prevailing definition from inspiring English sources

And as I pressed on to other shops, I learned something equally disconcerting: the prevailing definition of high-rise is jeans that fall a few inches below the waist.

So while the legal fight over same-sex marriage plays out, couples say the real battle is making relationships last — and their answers defy the prevailing definition of marriage.

For years, the prevailing definition of a good teacher in this country has been one whose students score well on that standardized test.

The conceptual flaw in this assumption is easily seen via reductio ad absurdum: a mAb targeting an epitope present in only 5 viruses each from a different subtype would be considered extremely broad in terms of its breadth across subtypes by the prevailing definition, but would in reality have essentially no neutralization/antigenicity range among globally circulating HIV viruses.

In most countries the prevailing definition is an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 130 or above.

That's because the prevailing definition of whiteness is stubbornly stuck in the past.

This introductory entry will outline the prevailing definitions and models of disability, and discuss the epistemic and moral authority of the experiences and self-reports of people classified as disabled.

When we talk about toxic masculinity, we're referring to the worst parts of our society's prevailing definition of what makes a man a man.

There are two prevailing definitions.

Even more ambitious is his archives project, using technology for Blu-ray discs (the prevailing high-definition format of DVD) that he developed with Sun Microsystems.

The prevailing perspectives and definitions of risk, at least in the engineering community, are based on probabilities.