Definition of "ascertaining" []

• Present participle of ascertain. (verb)

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• "The difficulty rests in ascertaining how to address decades of misinformation regarding international economics."
• "This change will apply exclusively to individuals that simply refuse to provide any identification or assist transportation security officers in ascertaining their identity."
• "Historians studying early migration patterns to other parts of North America have also encountered difficulties in ascertaining the actual numbers of people who arrived in the New World."