secern

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At the risk of coming off as condescending, the built-in fanbase for superhero movies have never shown themselves to be particularly secerning.

From The Guardian

The act of secerning; the act of producing from the blood substances different front the blood itself, as bile, saliva.

From Project Gutenberg

Fourthly, the secerning vessels become affected by the general diminution of sensorial power; whence all the secreted fluids are produced in less quantity.

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The Circle secerned from the Square; and its area gauged in terms of a triangle common to both.

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And still less is he able to secern the truth from the falsehood, or to weigh the probabilities of conflicting testimony.

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