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But first, it is important to distinguish whether your partner is simply snoring, or whether they have sleep apnoea.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

It can be difficult to distinguish an unarmed drone from one packed with explosives, so we need to treat all drones approaching sensitive areas as if they might be dangerous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Perimenopausal brain fog was a real thing, though like nearly every other perimenopausal symptom it was tricky to distinguish from about a hundred other medical conditions,” Sloane tells us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Researchers also use sophisticated computational techniques to distinguish different kinds of particle interactions and reject events that imitate the signatures expected from dark matter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Scientifically, it’s clearly more or less complete nonsense," Columbia University physicist Peter Woit told the New York Times, "but these days that doesn’t much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Researchers at the LMS, Imperial and UCL wanted to understand where these cells are located in untreated tumors, what distinguishes them and which other cells tend to surround them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Azure is an entirely different business from legacy software like Windows Server, and Nadella obviously distinguishes between AI data centers and software licensing when making capital decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“The ability to imagine a different world is what distinguishes the leaders of any social movement,” Linda Greenhouse once wrote of Ginsburg.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

It is the only book with language that distinguishes which purchases fund FLAG’s mission or pay Adams directly.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who serves as the Smithsonian Chancellor, hailed his "distinguished service," adding: "Secretary Bunch has pursued excellence in the telling of our nation's story."

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

"President Samia has lost a lifelong companion, her children a beloved father, and Tanzania a distinguished son," he wrote on social media.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

By eight weeks, their performance could not be statistically distinguished from that of healthy control mice.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

They are further distinguished by their meticulous topographical, biological and marine detail and precise layering of colors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Lorraine Daston has distinguished what she calls ‘strange facts’ from ‘plain facts’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The EV’s most distinguishing feature is its mouthless face that, needing to admit less cooling airflow, omits an upper grille opening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

French Senators had opted for a two-tier system distinguishing between blacklisted platforms flagged as harmful to a child's development, and those that could still be accessed with parental consent.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Bristle worm jaws also showed size-dependent elasticity. This is a distinguishing feature of bio-metals when compared to standard crystalline metals like copper or silver," said author Christian Hellmich.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

The distinguishing feature of chess, according to her, was that each piece moved in an L-shape—I suppose she’d got this from watching the knight—rather than in the leap-frogging way of draughts.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro