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- noun Plural form of
ascertainment .
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Examples
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Endowed with a genius for direct expression, he was able in his short existence to present a surprising number of penetrating ascertainments of American life, with a high degree of clarity and power.
Stephen Crane. 1915
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In their particulars his ascertainments are untrue, for in the names he had in no way discovered the alphabetic signs of which they were composed.
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Experience is in mutation, and our psychological ascertainments of truth are in mutation -- so much rationalism will allow; but never that either reality itself or truth itself is mutable.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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Finally, the endpoint ascertainments were of high quality given that PROSPER was a clinical trial with adjudication committees with rigorous endpoint criteria.
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Naveed Sattar et al. 2009
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