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Example sentences for: discern

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The impulse behind the real-life quest for a sense of closure--the impulse, that is, to discern meaning, to impose coherence, to tie up loose ends--is no doubt as timeless as sentience itself.
In heart versus brain comparisons, oligonucleotide probes, like their cDNA probe counterparts, could reproducibly discern differences in mRNA populations as low as twofold (namely, 14-3-3 protein gamma) and as high as around 90-fold (namely, creatine kinase).
The Commission has not been able to discern any congressional purpose that would be served by tying the right to representation on movements that have no effect on either the alien's lawful immigration status or her legal right to pursue her claim in U.S. courts.
An especially intriguing case is pleurmalion, the tubeshaped device used by the sorcerer Rhialto to discern the location of a precious textual prism, even from great distances in space and time.
The two women translated Jung's idea that personality is composed of four pairs of preferences--the most famous being extroverted and introverted--and created a systematic test to discern people's types.