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discern
verb as in catch sight of; recognize and understand
Strongest matches
anticipate, ascertain, detect, determine, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, divine, figure out, find out, foresee, perceive
Strong matches
apprehend, behold, descry, discover, espy, extricate, focus, judge, know, note, notice, observe, read, remark, rubberneck, secern, separate, severalize, spot, view
Weak matches
difference, discrepate, get a load of, get the picture, get wise to, make distinction, make out, pick out, see the light, see through, take in
Example Sentences
Pandit also sees a “healthy consolidation within the tech sector,” with investors being “discerning about forward-looking guidance and how much these companies are spending on capex,” even with earnings that have been “pretty spectacular.”
Pandit also sees a “healthy consolidation within the tech sector,” with investors being “discerning about forward-looking guidance and how much these companies are spending on capex,” even with earnings that have been “pretty spectacular.”
Instead of finding practical compromises through negotiation, politics became a matter of discerning what Jean-Jacques Rousseau called the general will of the people and then implementing it.
But IPO investors are becoming a bit more discerning.
But as a former political-military analyst and former senior adviser at the Department of Defense, I find it hard to discern a coherent strategy or objective.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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