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distinguish

[dih-sting-gwish] / dɪˈstɪŋ gwɪʃ /




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He accepted AI was used "to distinguish and visualize features in the reconstructed grayscale images".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Many consumers struggle to distinguish between minimally processed and highly processed products due to confusing labels and marketing practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Other researchers are applying music and acoustic principles to make alarms less annoying and easier for clinicians to distinguish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Better separation methods can therefore reveal substances that were present all along but were difficult to distinguish using less powerful techniques.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Woodhull pointed out that the Fourteenth Amendment used the word “persons” and that the Founding Fathers had also used the word “persons” rather than distinguish between men and women when they drafted the Constitution.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

"There's nothing that distinguishes them from other bees really, they're not that kind of attention-grabbing species, but, you know, were you to look for them, go to ivy and you'll see them," Benwell said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“The ability to imagine a different world is what distinguishes the leaders of any social movement,” Linda Greenhouse once wrote of Ginsburg.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

The results suggest that the brain distinguishes between flavor and actual nutritional value.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Like: “I noticed the posted range is fairly broad. Could you help me understand what distinguishes someone at the bottom of it from someone at the top?”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

If originality distinguishes art from craft, tradition serves as the common meeting ground of the two.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

The study was one of the final research publications involving Peter Littlewood, a distinguished UChicago physicist who died on June 15.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Osman is well qualified to answer, having enjoyed a distinguished first-team career at Everton stretching between 2003 and 2016.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

While one might argue that those are original titles of distinguished quality, it’s unfair to write off “Resident Evil” simply because it’s a game adaptation.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Diane Wolfe does not believe the vigango need to be repatriated, but she distinguished that from her willingness to see portions of the broader collection return to Africa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Please join me in welcoming our distinguished alumna, Miss Penelope Lumley.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

"So for example, people of colour, gender, queer people, people with kind of interesting and distinguishing facial features, it means that they're going to be left out," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

She stressed, however, the importance of distinguishing between literary criticism and what often passes for such on social media but which, in her view, amounts to "advertising."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

I spent the first three paragraphs of a recent column distinguishing between acknowledging failed climate policy and questioning climate science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

It is true that our color was not our distinguishing feature there, so much as the American- ness represented in our poor handle on French.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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