determinants

noun

plural of determinant
as in factors
formal a thing that controls or influences what happens
—often + of Level of education is often a determinant of income.

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Recent Examples of determinants Age matters, Bonnet said, when considering risk factors like diabetes, hypertension, social determinants of health, and smoking. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026 Serlie and colleagues are now studying determinants of weight loss success after bariatric surgery. — Crystal Gwizdala, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026 The World Health Organization recognizes that individual, social and structural determinants shape mental health and that promotion and prevention efforts need to address those determinants. — Yujia Zhu, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 But the costs of the race will also be destiny determinants, as investors question the massive sums of capital being deployed and the timeline for seeing a return on the investment. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 July 2026 Because even if Anthropic wanted to play that role, being both the provider of a hackable service and the blocking of cyberterrorists, the insurance companies, the determinants of who gets coverage, would never allow it. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 July 2026 Both parameters were identified as the most important determinants of the fill factor at low voltage losses. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026 Some count ratings or awards as determinants of quality, while count changes to policy and laws or special commissions of inquiry. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026 The Coquille Indian Tribe in Oregon adopted the Indigenous determinants of health by ordinance last year, and Roth has been working with them as chairman of their executive health board to incorporate the determinants of health across their agencies. — Anita Hofschneider, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for determinants
  1. factors
  2. considerations
  3. antecedents
Noun
  • It's based on several factors, including your history of paying debts on time and credit utilization.
    — Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The choice of model was often an engineering decision driven by factors like response time, compute costs, etc.
    — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of factors
Noun
  • Iran and Oman, neighbors across the Strait of Hormuz, have been negotiating an agreement on how to manage traffic through the waterway, including considerations of a toll fee.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Acquired Braden Shewmake from the Houston Astros for cash considerations.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of considerations
Noun
  • Her model suggests that antecedents, physiological state and consequences continuously influence one another, with behavior emerging as the result of that interaction.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • After millennia of antecedents, this latest trend of trying to enlist God into warfare didn’t start in America, of course.
    — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of antecedents

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