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noundifferentiation; feature

nounprominence; achievement

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That distinction is one reason she’s “in the deflation camp.”

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The pack is definitely not waterproof, which is an important distinction when you’re carrying a laptop.

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In 2004, she won election as District Attorney of San Francisco serving with distinction.

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One time when this distinction is particularly relevant is following major events such as the debates and party conventions.

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When we say the brain’s “memory center,” the hippocampus, or the emotion center, the “amygdala,” these distinctions are based on cytoarchitectural maps.

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Even if we can split brand and non-brand, and our manager understands the distinction, if we’ve set KPIs based on the total number they are going to care about the total number.

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Yet being able to make such distinctions is extremely important to scientists.

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So I don’t see why you would make a distinction in your testing policy.

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They have certainly evolved to be a clear distinction between public and private, where the public hospitals — they have to take the poorer patients, they have to take emergency rooms.

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To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.

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