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There is normal teenage rebellion, and there is radicalization, and sometimes it’s really hard to distinguish between the two, Dehghani said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Most fundamental laws of physics do not distinguish between past and future, or between left and right.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

At least 2,896 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, according to the health ministry, whose figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

It does not distinguish between “maybe” and “definitely.”

From Salon • May 12, 2026

We normally distinguish between inventions and discoveries, but the distinction was slow to establish itself and is even now clearer in our use of ‘invention’ than of ‘discovery’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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