distinguish
Example Sentences
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Communication allows animals to distinguish between partners that offer a genuine service and those that might take advantage of them.
From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026
The directive applied only to access by foreign nationals, but Anthropic said it was unable to distinguish among users based on nationality and was therefore forced to take its models offline.
From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026
The name also helped distinguish it from another popular sport: rugby.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
“Before you even get to the door,” he says, “cameras will know it’s you,” and those AI-assisted cameras will also be able to distinguish between friends, family, deliveries and threats.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
I take ‘laws of nature’ and ‘scientific laws’ to be synonymous, although I am aware that some philosophers want to use these as labels to distinguish two different types of law.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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