distinction
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That distinction adds a new layer to the long-running debate over whether violence is an inherent part of human nature.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
True enough, but in my view the rule proposals ignore the basic distinction between institutional and individual investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Rep. Gabe Evans, who is running for reelection in Colorado, described the distinction as “gangbangers, not grandmas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
But this is a distinction so extremely hard to make that the West has not been able to make it yet.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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Rather than reacting only to familiar properties such as color or intensity, it detects subtle quantum distinctions in the incoming light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
He notes the practical and administrative problems of making such distinctions work in schools and on teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Hemani’s answer is that constitutional rights cannot turn on analogies that survive only because the categories have been defined so broadly that the distinctions disappear.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
In one of its many distinctions from other festivals, Ojai stays fresh by yearly changing music directors and for its 80th anniversary Esa-Pekka Salonen returned after a quarter-century absence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The economic hardships of the last few years had only sharpened the distinctions between them and the boys they were about to take on.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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