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"That stands in distinction to many of the shorter-term players, like Digital First Media."

From US News ● Apr. 20, 2016

“That stands in distinction to many of the shorter-term players, like Digital First Media.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2016

There is a lightness, a liveliness, to Larson's performance in distinction to Wahlberg's heavy harrumphing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2014

Palynologists speak of fossil pollen in distinction to modern pollen.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Milan this artist is known by the name of Crivellone, in distinction to his son Jacopo, whose principal merit lay in his drawings of birds and fishes.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi


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