Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

distinguish

[dih-sting-gwish] / dɪˈstɪŋ gwɪʃ /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

"South Korea and the United States deploy decoy targets to divert torpedoes, but AI could potentially help distinguish real targets from decoys," Lim Eul-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

However, it also captures moonlight reflected from Earth's surface and atmosphere, which can make the much weaker airglow difficult to distinguish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

As a major chip index heads for its eighth straight session of declines, it’s becoming harder to distinguish investor concern from sheer fatigue.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the closer Fielder and Oppenheim got to the couple, the harder it became to distinguish candor from calculated performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It is easy to distinguish the parts told by each, Aeschylus grave and direct, Ovid light and amusing.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In an article, they note that the definition used in the measure hews closely to another section of California law, which distinguishes providing internet services from offering content, services and applications online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"There's nothing that distinguishes them from other bees really, they're not that kind of attention-grabbing species, but, you know, were you to look for them, go to ivy and you'll see them," Benwell said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Researchers at the LMS, Imperial and UCL wanted to understand where these cells are located in untreated tumors, what distinguishes them and which other cells tend to surround them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Azure is an entirely different business from legacy software like Windows Server, and Nadella obviously distinguishes between AI data centers and software licensing when making capital decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The distinguished military college designation predates World War I but was dropped in the mid-20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Zacharia, in a post on X, thanked Trump for the "distinguished privilege of serving as White House Press Secretary."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Cornell is an Ivy League university, alongside Harvard and Yale, and its faculty includes Nobel laureates and other distinguished researchers.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The study was one of the final research publications involving Peter Littlewood, a distinguished UChicago physicist who died on June 15.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the far side, Taran distinguished meager clumps of wasted trees.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Obtaining these measurements requires instruments capable of distinguishing extremely fine details in the light collected from distant planetary atmospheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Hannah Grossman, co-director of High Desert Test Sites, sees Albuquerque’s physical engagement with the landscape as a distinguishing feature of her practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"So for example, people of colour, gender, queer people, people with kind of interesting and distinguishing facial features, it means that they're going to be left out," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I spent the first three paragraphs of a recent column distinguishing between acknowledging failed climate policy and questioning climate science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Kuhn tried to maintain both these views, despite the tension between them, by distinguishing revolutionary science from normal science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


Vocabulary lists containing distinguish

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training