discern
Example Sentences
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And here’s hoping we’ll read some discerning criticism on the subject as well.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s hard to discern a unifying theme in the best film scores of 2025.
From Los Angeles Times
In England, notes Mr. Harpham, as early as the 1550s one might discern “a popular consensus” that “the people of the nation stood in some special relation to freedom.”
Mr. Dowling is a discerning and sympathetic, if occasionally starchy, guide through Shepard’s oeuvre.
But if AI power users pick and choose what is worth automating, then we could all be a bit more discerning.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
