secern

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At the risk of coming off as condescending, the built-in fanbase for superhero movies have never shown themselves to be particularly secerning.

From The Guardian

The act of secerning; the act of producing from the blood substances different front the blood itself, as bile, saliva.

From Project Gutenberg

There are three sources of animal inactivity; first, the defect of the natural quantity of stimulus on those fibres, which have been accustomed to perpetual stimulus; as the arterial and secerning systems.

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The Circle secerned from the Square; and its area gauged in terms of a triangle common to both.

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And still less is he able to secern the truth from the falsehood, or to weigh the probabilities of conflicting testimony.

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