distinguish

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The findings, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, reveal how caffeine acts on a well-defined brain pathway involved in social memory, the ability to recognize and distinguish people we have encountered before.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

In other words, these are not the types of judges you would expect to look for reasons to distinguish or defy Supreme Court orders.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Dr Andrea Maria Pelliconi, an expert in international human rights law at the University of Southampton, says airlines and booking sites "should distinguish Western Sahara as a territory with a different status from Morocco".

From BBC • May 24, 2026

The problem, West argued, was not just the volume of fabricated content but its sophistication; the tools had become so advanced that even experts struggled to distinguish the fake from the real.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

"Scientifically, it’s clearly more or less complete nonsense," Columbia University physicist Peter Woit told the New York Times, "but these days that doesn’t much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson