distinction

Zambia had the dubious distinction of being Africa’s first pandemic-era sovereign defaulter when he assumed office in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

That distinction matters because UPI's extraordinary growth was not simply a story about Indians getting smartphones.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Part of the reason that distinction gets lost may be simple nostalgia.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Under Austrian law, "a distinction between men and women may only be made if there is a special, objective justification for it", she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

She knew he agreed there was a distinction between no more monsters and no free monsters, but she didn’t know if he would believe there was a loose monster that needed to be hunted down.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Racial equality consists in eliminating legal and social distinctions based on race.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

She puzzles out the distinctions among nursing homes, assisted living facilities and continuing care retirement communities, as well as home healthcare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Hemani’s answer is that constitutional rights cannot turn on analogies that survive only because the categories have been defined so broadly that the distinctions disappear.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Quite a few religions were considered cults in the beginning, Christianity among them, so it does make some sense not to wade too deeply into the finer distinctions.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

To the untrained eye, the Wall Street people who rode from the Connecticut suburbs to Grand Central were an undifferentiated mass, but within that mass Danny noted many small and important distinctions.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis