discrete
Example Sentences
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Rodríguez Castro has since settled into a more discrete lifestyle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Alison-Madueke said another property overlooking Regent's Park was used for "discrete" official meetings, while she said another property she is accused of using was "completely gutted" for renovations and unusable when she saw it.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
As their characters, Conforti, Blanchard and Ardies, deftly carve out discrete personalities beneath their plum-colored homogeneity, each playing a role that is, in turn, playing a role while also remaining desperately human.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
In his view, conventional medicine treats the body as discrete pieces, but it’s better to envision it as one system, where everything works in concert.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
Like most other major universities, Berkeley tended to think of chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers all as inhabitants of discrete sandboxes.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing discrete
Grade 12, List 1
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