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Example sentences for: discern

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However, the climate changed after the 1952 coup and today, though you can still discern the European feel of Alexandria, there is no doubt that it is an Egyptian city.
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."
Our study design and data analyses do not permit us to discern what the initiating factor causing the patients' hip OA was, or whether having hip OA may lead to pain and a sedentary lifestyle.
Data returned from user interaction with Internet ads far outweighs what you can discern from television, radio, or direct-mail campaigns.
Second, because biological phenomena are generated by large, complex networks of elements, there is little reason to expect to discern fundamental laws in them.