disambiguate

Example Sentences

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Creatives behind the numerous “Scooby-Doo” adaptations have for years tried to disambiguate Velma’s sexuality.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022

“We have to decide: Is it really the same entity that we are referring to? Sometimes context will disambiguate for us, and often it will not,” Baron says.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2019

Other fathers and sons seemed unable to disambiguate their roles; there was whining and hectoring, and these were the teams you didn’t want to be on.

From Slate • May 30, 2018

Through a series of studies with rats, it was found that time cell activity could uniquely code successive events and were able to disambiguate overlapping sequences in temporally organized episodes.

From Scientific American • Jun. 3, 2013

I can only follow the stone's progress for a few seconds before my eyes can no longer disambiguate it from the surrounding countryside.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory