distinguish
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To make sense of this theoretical point, it’s important to distinguish between stocks’ return while interest rates are rising, and their expected future returns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The pattern may have served as disruptive camouflage, visually breaking up the outline of the crocodile and making it more difficult to distinguish from its surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
"The country looks to this court. History, too, will look upon this moment," he said, urging justices to "maintain balance" and distinguish "legal controversy from personal dispute."
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Questions poured forth afterward about leadership, difficult personalities, education, institutional blindness, younger generations and whether children would still be able to distinguish between what is real and what is synthetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
On the question of funding the domestic debt, for example, Hamilton regarded Madison’s proposal to distinguish between original and present holders of government securities as naive and mischievous.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"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
“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
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
What distinguishes “With the Old Breed” from many other war memoirs is its focus on moral courage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hobbes, for his part, neatly distinguishes experiment from experience, but not as we do.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Stephanie was an extraordinary talent whose long and distinguished career included many iconic performances in theatre and television," the statement read.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the urging of Harvard’s president, James Conant, who was also a distinguished chemist, Merck hired Tishler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
He said La Opinión distinguished itself by sticking to journalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who serves as the Smithsonian Chancellor, hailed his "distinguished service," adding: "Secretary Bunch has pursued excellence in the telling of our nation's story."
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Root gave much of the credit for her success to William, noting that she had both “the services of her distinguished husband” and his “secret methods of solving ciphers.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
"Bristle worm jaws also showed size-dependent elasticity. This is a distinguishing feature of bio-metals when compared to standard crystalline metals like copper or silver," said author Christian Hellmich.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
But at Jerry’s the effort of distinguishing necessary from unnecessary and urgent from whenever would itself be too much of an energy drain.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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