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discernible

[dih-sur-nuh-buhl, -zur-] / dɪˈsɜr nə bəl, -ˈzɜr- /


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Trump, more of a “Phantom of the Opera” fan, didn’t react in any discernible way.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Anthropic’s current defense contracts total only about $200 million, a barely discernible amount in the trillion-dollar Pentagon budget.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

The book’s 47 staccato chapters jump from one subject to another without much of a discernible pattern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

No Triple Crown, no hope of winning the Six Nations title, no end to their hideous run of defeats against Ireland - now standing at 12 and with no discernible sign of it stopping there.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

They could see the top of the Giulia's smokestack, the smoke itself discernible only as a starless patch of night sky.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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