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The collective’s members are also committed to ensuring that their work is culturally relevant — which is a distinguishing factor of many mutual aid projects.
MUTUAL AID MAY BE LAST YEAR’S MOST ENDURING LEGACYLUZ CRUZMAY 27, 2021EATEREveryone had to wait until the next spring, because an important distinguishing trait shows up in flowers.
HOW PASSION, LUCK AND SWEAT SAVED SOME OF NORTH AMERICA’S RAREST PLANTSSUSAN MILIUSNOVEMBER 5, 2020SCIENCE NEWSA good many children seem to be like savages in distinguishing those to whom one is bound to speak the truth.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYSome of his violins possess a distinguishing mark in a rather abrupt rise in the centre.
VIOLINS AND VIOLIN MAKERSJOSEPH PEARCEGram's method (p. 40) is a very useful aid in distinguishing certain bacteria.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDAnd respectable obscurity has ever been the distinguishing characteristic of Godalming.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERThis is the case with the modern Jews and many other people who have strongly-marked, peculiar, or distinguishing characteristics.
THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATESMARTIN R. DELANYPerhaps sheer agitation may have rendered him incapable of distinguishing one among so many.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYAnd through Christ come all the distinguishing features, and all the high privileges of his people, as an holy priesthood.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMThe most distinguishing characteristic of the apes and of the nearly related lemurs has not hitherto been definitely pointed out.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO DISTINGUISHING
- analysis
- apportionment
- autopsy
- bisection
- breaking
- breaking down
- breaking up
- carving
- contrasting
- cutting up
- demarcation
- departmentalizing
- detaching
- detachment
- diagnosis
- disjuncture
- dismemberment
- disparting
- disseverance
- dissolution
- distinguishing
- distribution
- disunion
- dividing
- divorce
- parceling
- parting
- partition
- reduction
- rending
- rupture
- segmentation
- selection
- separating
- severance
- splitting up
- subdivision
- vivisection
- affiliates
- associates
- borders
- boundaries
- branches
- categories
- chunks
- classes
- compartments
- cuts
- degrees
- demarcations
- departments
- dividends
- dividers
- divides
- dividing lines
- divvies
- ends
- fractions
- fragments
- groupings
- heads
- kinds
- lobes
- lumps
- members
- moieties
- offshoots
- parcels
- partitions
- piece of actions
- pieces
- portions
- rake-offs
- ramifications
- sections
- sectors
- segments
- shares
- slices
- sorts
- splits
- subdivisions
- wedges
- accurate
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- dainty
- decent
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- fine
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- hairsplitting
- meticulous
- minute
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- respectable
- right
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- tidy
- trim
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
- accurate
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- dainty
- decent
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- fine
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- hairsplitting
- meticulous
- minute
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- respectable
- right
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- tidy
- trim
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
- accurate
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- dainty
- decent
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- fine
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- hairsplitting
- meticulous
- minute
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- respectable
- right
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- tidy
- trim
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
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