descry

Example Sentences

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The superior power of machine learning, Cohen explains, is that it can descry patterns in what traditional sensory methods dismissed as noise.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2018

What yonder twinkling azure orb do I descry?

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

You will descry shades of H. Potter and of "Grimm," which this series predates.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2012

Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010

We stood side by side there in the near-dark; I could descry the fear in his eyes, the discomfort in the mouth.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson