distinguish
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She should read labels, mistrust mysterious additives, interrogate old nutritional orthodoxies and learn to distinguish “real” food from whatever came before it.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Dogs can distinguish between positive emotions and all the others, but they don't seem to be able to distinguish between the different negative emotions," Hernández-Pérez, also at the University of Vienna, told BBC News.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Anthropomorphic language can inadvertently shift attention away from the real engineering challenges: ensuring AI systems validate assumptions, distinguish simulations from production environments and operate within appropriate safeguards before taking consequential actions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
O’Leary: The ability to distinguish signal from noise.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
But it was growing harder to distinguish who the enemy was.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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“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
It is the only book with language that distinguishes which purchases fund FLAG’s mission or pay Adams directly.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The results suggest that the brain distinguishes between flavor and actual nutritional value.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
“What distinguishes Ukrainians from Russians is not language or religion, though there is a difference there,” Hrytsak said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Her Grandmother Clara searched her back and found the tiny star-shaped mark that distinguishes those born to true happiness.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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"I'm really more of a paleoecologist, paleogeographer, not a taxonomist," says Dr. Cruz, who noticed unusual features in the Tar Pits specimens that distinguished S. labreae from known spadefoot toads.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
At Yale Law School, where Mr. Vance studied from 2010 through 2013 with practically a full ride, students occupied one of the most architecturally distinguished academic environments in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
When the app launched 2014, founder and boss Whitney Wolfe Herd said it distinguished itself from rivals like Tinder by allowing women to "make the first move".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mark Joseph Stern: In your column at the end of this most recent term, you distinguished between the Supreme Court’s power to say what the law is after Marbury v.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Capron was “perfectly willing” for these witnesses to “say for themselves what their opinions are …” In other words, if ordinary readers didn’t believe, they should ask their more distinguished neighbors.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Dr. Mary K. Mulcahey, chief of sports medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, who specializes in shoulder and knee injuries, said AI would likely have a hard time distinguishing between different types of meniscus tears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Identifying species correctly, determining whether the caregiving individual is male or female, and distinguishing true parental care from similar behaviors such as mate guarding all require specialized expertise.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Inspecting roofs, especially distinguishing between wind and hail damage, involves a certain degree of subjective judgment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the market may be growing savvier about distinguishing between companies at risk of disruption and those set to benefit from AI.
From Barron's ● May 7, 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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