distinguish

Example Sentences

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“You’re infatuated with your grief. You think you’ve finally found something that will distinguish you.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Understanding that dynamic helps explain why it is essential to distinguish the present dispute from cases in which courts are being asked to intervene to protect democratic participation.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

But it’s critical to distinguish between weaker firms and established operators with disciplined processes.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell