distinction
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Feeling control isn’t the same thing as having control, and it’s a distinction that we miss all too often when we talk about fertility preservation.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
As the name suggests, a key distinction is their size.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Labour MP says: "It's so important we show our support for these elderly people. They served this country with distinction over decades and decades."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Robert Brusca, president of FAO Economics, said the source of the funds was a distinction without a difference.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The terminology we now use to express this distinction, between primary and secondary qualities, was introduced by Boyle in 1666 and popularized by Locke in 1689.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Sexual equality requires the acknowledgment and maintenance of certain distinctions between men and women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hemani’s answer is that constitutional rights cannot turn on analogies that survive only because the categories have been defined so broadly that the distinctions disappear.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
In one of its many distinctions from other festivals, Ojai stays fresh by yearly changing music directors and for its 80th anniversary Esa-Pekka Salonen returned after a quarter-century absence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Catholicism is now listed under a single designation under Christianity without similar distinctions of their denominations.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
We easily parse complex distinctions in facial expression.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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