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  • adjective Detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.

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  • adjective perceptible by the senses or intellect

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Examples

  • Does Uncommon Descent not result in discernable phylogenetic trees?

    Building Trees Sequentially 2008

  • Here's what I said in an email to a friend, and I don't think I've much improved on it above: The problem with most fiction, actually, is that the writer's intentions are all too clear so, alas, they are mostly discernable, which is just no fun at all.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Here's what I said in an email to a friend, and I don't think I've much improved on it above: The problem with most fiction, actually, is that the writer's intentions are all too clear so, alas, they are mostly discernable, which is just no fun at all.

    Falling Into Oblivion without a Parachute 2008

  • Their link page has lots of good links, but not in any kind of discernable order.

    PalmAddict Website Teri 2002

  • Their link page has lots of good links, but not in any kind of discernable order.

    Archive 2002-05-01 Lori 2002

  • (There is one odd scene, when Salinger is pricked on the back of his neck - the same wound that killed his partner - that lacks any kind of discernable payoff).

    andPOP.com 2009

  • (There is one odd scene, when Salinger is pricked on the back of his neck - the same wound that killed his partner - that lacks any kind of discernable payoff).

    andPOP.com 2009

  • And, as we saw tonight, New York doesn't have any kind of discernable homefield advantage.

    NY Daily News 2009

  • Jade managed to keep her 15 minutes of fame going for seven years without any kind of discernable talent!

    unknown title 2009

  • Jade managed to keep her 15 minutes of fame going for seven years without any kind of discernable talent!

    unknown title 2009

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