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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
discern .
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Examples
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Every magazine "discerns" the same must-have items.
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That is also the significance, he rightly discerns, of the election of Barack Obama, a centrist whose policies will contain only the faintest glimmer of progressivism.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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My associate has developed a profile that from a brief repetitive exercise, a statistical algorithm discerns key behavior attributes and learning styles.
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And our opinion of him cannot change because he ultimately discerns some merit in the human race and decides to turn off his engines of mass destruction; for heaven's sake, if a man starts firing a machine gun into a crowd and then decides after ten seconds that this is a bad thing to do and stops shooting, does that make him a hero?
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In Milton's terms hope resides in the believing soul's experiential connection to God; "the fancy," as Keats discerns, "cannot cheat so well."
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Second, we offer a word of sober restraint as our nation discerns what its response will be.
9/11 2009
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The current team of 12 theologians will hold their last meeting from Jan. 20 to 23 in Niagara Falls, Ont. After that, the commission will be on hiatus as the Primate discerns how best to approach future theological work.
Anglican Think Tank helps Anglicans think more clearly about their faith « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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In Milton's terms hope resides in the believing soul's experiential connection to God; "the fancy," as Keats discerns, "cannot cheat so well."
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Second, we offer a word of sober restraint as our nation discerns what its response will be.
9/11 2009
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That is also the significance, he rightly discerns, of the election of Barack Obama, a centrist whose policies will contain only the faintest glimmer of progressivism.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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