- past participle of distinguish.
- past tense form of distinguish.
distinguished
Example Sentences
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Mark Joseph Stern: In your column at the end of this most recent term, you distinguished between the Supreme Court’s power to say what the law is after Marbury v.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Media coverage treated the report as the collective judgment of more than 8,400 members—each elected for a lifetime of distinguished achievement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Robert Pozen is currently a distinguished senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former president of Fidelity Investments.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Yes, Nolan has worked with some of the most distinguished actors of our time, including Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy and Leo.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Her schoolmates believed this because she was already the most beautiful, distinguished, and discreet girl they had ever seen.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing distinguished
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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And Then There Were None
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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