descry
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The superior power of machine learning, Cohen explains, is that it can descry patterns in what traditional sensory methods dismissed as noise.
From The Guardian • May 23, 2018
What yonder twinkling azure orb do I descry?
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015
You will descry shades of H. Potter and of "Grimm," which this series predates.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2012
Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010
Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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