discerned
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The officers shared the shocking recording this week in hopes of identifying the driver, whose license plate cannot be discerned in the clip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Only so much about the subjects who are made the focus of the program can be discerned from flimsy data that’s some 2,000 years old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
We would discover, in ourselves, the sources of wonderment and delight that we have discerned in all other manifestations of nature.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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