descry

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

Still, there are trends and changes to descry: To the usual surprising degree, great minds are thinking alike, small ones running in the same gutter.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2011

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

We stood side by side there in the near-dark; I could descry the fear in his eyes, the discomfort in the mouth.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The picturesque Tourist, in a sunny autumn day, through this bounteous realm of England, descries the Union Workhouse on his path.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

And on this Aeneas descries from sea a mighty forest.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I read it in thy looks—thy languish'd grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.'

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor

The huntsman hears the rustling noise, And through half-eaten leaves descries His branching horns, the pack recalls, And merited the creature falls To his ingratitude a prey.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park

Barclay, Captain, first descries the Straits of Fuca, 19, 62.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Travers Twiss

Once the employer of 500 people, the mill is a keyhole through which most of Dundee’s history can be descried.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

A truly fascinating man, Angleton was a devoted student of the matchless British literary critic William Empson, who descried, in the densely metaphoric poems of Donne and Shakespeare, patterns of subtle contradiction, self-reference, and ambiguity.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

Presently they descried people, naked, and the Admiral landed in the boat, which was armed, along with Martin Alonzo Pinzon, and Vincent Yanez his brother, captain of the Nina.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

Police Chief Murphy Paul descried the footage as “shocking to the conscience,” even as he emphasized that it does not “tell the whole story of the investigation.”

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2018

To the east the outflung arm of the mountains marched to a sudden end, and far lands could be descried beyond them, wide and vague.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

My colleague Jessica Winter does have a helpful hint, though, for descrying Trump’s fanciest, sneakiest adviser:

From Slate ● May 2, 2017

Say you were descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is also the opinion of Hegel, who supposes our primitive mental condition to be capable of descrying objects remote in space and time.

From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang

Through fields of ether and fleecy clouds he journeyed many a mile, descrying, like Sancho Panza on his clavileno, the earth far distant below him, and no bigger than a nut-shell.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan

One o'clock had arrived; fifteen minutes after, I strolled into the garden, and began to look over the little garden-gate in expectation of every moment descrying Agnes in the distance.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg