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Example sentences for: discern

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It will be next to impossible to discern which company's shoes are being pushed.
In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."
You will soon be able to discern this after visiting a few stores and closely examining the products.
Second, because biological phenomena are generated by large, complex networks of elements, there is little reason to expect to discern fundamental laws in them.
Only Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) and William Safire (NBC's Meet the Press ) discern a distinct pattern of play-for-pay.