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Example sentences for: discern

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In the schematic role of a sober, family-man gambler called Knish, John Turturro proves that he doesn't always need to chew the scenery: Mumbling, hovering, shuffling in the margins, he makes you watch him closely to discern his real, complicated feelings.
Few individuals, I hazard, would be likely, upon seeing the Hindi terms bilayati, bajara, bajra, kaawch, pani , and rasaut , to cite only a few, to discern therein the English blighty Anglo-Indian slang for `England as home,' brinjarry `traveling grain and salt dealer,' budgerow `large, keelless barge,' cowage `tropical vine,' pawnee `water' and rusot `plant extract.
Close is a Democrat, and South Carolina has a large black population--two things you'd never discern from Legacy . Race has increasingly become a predictor of party identification in the South, and Close can't risk conveying, visually or otherwise, that he's a liberal--or even a Democrat.
The differences are hard to discern, but no matter, for the book is a user-friendly excursion through the history of the language, with many good examples of loanwords, derivations, and other linguistic incunabula, curiosa, and paraphernalia interestingly presented in a lively fashion by a good writer.
Program staff from the Office of Information Management reviewed Case Service Reports (CSR) for 1991 through 2000 to discern trends in the types and numbers of cases closed by grantees.