descry

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

What yonder twinkling azure orb do I descry?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2015

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

“I cannot descry all of your marks,” I explained.

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

Upon those pages she descries Her passion's faithful counterpart, Fruit of the yearnings of the heart.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding

I read it in thy looks—thy languish'd grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.'

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor

While scanning the moonlit expanse he descries a group of figures; apparently quadrupeds, though of what species he cannot tell.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

The huntsman hears the rustling noise, And through half-eaten leaves descries His branching horns, the pack recalls, And merited the creature falls To his ingratitude a prey.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park

The palmilla, standing like a huge porcupine upon the plain, cannot be mistaken; and he descries it at more than a mile’s distance, the shadow of his own head already flickering among its bayonet-like blades.

From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

Once the employer of 500 people, the mill is a keyhole through which most of Dundee’s history can be descried.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

Another witness descried their relationship as being "more like mother and daughter".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2021

A truly fascinating man, Angleton was a devoted student of the matchless British literary critic William Empson, who descried, in the densely metaphoric poems of Donne and Shakespeare, patterns of subtle contradiction, self-reference, and ambiguity.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

Presently they descried people, naked, and the Admiral landed in the boat, which was armed, along with Martin Alonzo Pinzon, and Vincent Yanez his brother, captain of the Nina.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

My colleague Jessica Winter does have a helpful hint, though, for descrying Trump’s fanciest, sneakiest adviser:

From Slate ● May 2, 2017

Say you were descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

The former commissary of police, it is true, had a habit of descrying rebels everywhere.

From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Isabel Florence Hapgood

I left the wood, still bearing her in my arms, and re-entered the road, from the desire of descrying, as soon as possible, the coming passenger.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown

The gloom which prevailed around—the monuments which intervened—and, above all, the distance at which I then was from the grave of Clara Douglas—prevented me from descrying the captain.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various