descry

Example Sentences

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The superior power of machine learning, Cohen explains, is that it can descry patterns in what traditional sensory methods dismissed as noise.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2018

Still, there are trends and changes to descry: To the usual surprising degree, great minds are thinking alike, small ones running in the same gutter.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2011

Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010

As a result of the decision, businessmen could descry trouble ahead for dozens of big and little U.S. companies.

From Time Magazine Archive

We stood side by side there in the near-dark; I could descry the fear in his eyes, the discomfort in the mouth.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson