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distinguish

[dih-sting-gwish] / dɪˈstɪŋ gwɪʃ /




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"Dogs can distinguish between positive emotions and all the others, but they don't seem to be able to distinguish between the different negative emotions," Hernández-Pérez, also at the University of Vienna, told BBC News.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

To determine whether C3 in the bloodstream also affected immunotherapy, the team conducted experiments in mice that allowed them to distinguish between C3 from different sources.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

Our public discourse will be stronger if we distinguish what AI does from what we assume it experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

O’Leary: The ability to distinguish signal from noise.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Life which we can no longer distinguish; life carefully buried up to its forehead in the carcass of a dead world.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

“The ability to imagine a different world is what distinguishes the leaders of any social movement,” Linda Greenhouse once wrote of Ginsburg.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

It is the only book with language that distinguishes which purchases fund FLAG’s mission or pay Adams directly.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

The results suggest that the brain distinguishes between flavor and actual nutritional value.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Like: “I noticed the posted range is fairly broad. Could you help me understand what distinguishes someone at the bottom of it from someone at the top?”

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

This is the element that distinguishes applied science from basic.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Mark Joseph Stern: In your column at the end of this most recent term, you distinguished between the Supreme Court’s power to say what the law is after Marbury v.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Robert Pozen is currently a distinguished senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former president of Fidelity Investments.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Yes, Nolan has worked with some of the most distinguished actors of our time, including Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy and Leo.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

She described Widdecombe as "a very fun and feisty woman who spoke her mind", while the then-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Widdecombe was a "distinguished politician".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

“And we always pay scrupulous attention to the views of distinguished scholars.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Dr. Mary K. Mulcahey, chief of sports medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, who specializes in shoulder and knee injuries, said AI would likely have a hard time distinguishing between different types of meniscus tears.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

French Senators had opted for a two-tier system distinguishing between blacklisted platforms flagged as harmful to a child's development, and those that could still be accessed with parental consent.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Identifying species correctly, determining whether the caregiving individual is male or female, and distinguishing true parental care from similar behaviors such as mate guarding all require specialized expertise.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

The distinguishing feature of chess, according to her, was that each piece moved in an L-shape—I suppose she’d got this from watching the knight—rather than in the leap-frogging way of draughts.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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