discriminate

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Machine-learning tools to detect social bots, like our own Botometer, were unable to discriminate between these AI agents and human accounts in the wild.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

The idea is that, for some patients, the new medicines could improve the effects of the weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, which don’t discriminate between fat and muscle.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

"This is an epidemic that does not discriminate," said Refuge's chair Hettie Barkworth-Nanton.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Elizabeth Price Foley and Jason Torchinsky’s op-ed, on the unconstitutionality of disparate-impact theory, left me with no such “impression that any use of statistics to prove intent to discriminate is illegal.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Galton coined the memorable phrase nature versus nurture to discriminate hereditary and environmental influences.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee