discerned
Example Sentences
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Mr. Blum’s direction doesn’t allow for enough speaking silences, which might allow the characters’ interior lives to be discerned more clearly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The researchers discerned patterns of meaning in lines, notches, dots, and crosses on objects like mammoth tusks as old as 45,000 years in caves in Germany.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
Myanmar has a rich culture of fortune-telling, and many believe the future can be discerned by mystics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Despite police officers’ efforts to allow political speech, all that could be heard were jeers and insults, though the word “sham” could be discerned amid the din.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024
Then I saw that some of the people were indeed moving, but with such small, birdlike gestures I had not at first discerned them.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
