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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
discern .
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Examples
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But what surprised me the most concerning the Devil can be discerned from the following passage in the book:
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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But what surprised me the most concerning the Devil can be discerned from the following passage in the book:
Mikhail A. Bulgakov - Master and Margarita (Book Review) 2008
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Rather than rehearse the elements easily discerned from the essays themselves, the remainder of this introduction will provide a context within which readers can explore the resonances at work in the essays themselves as they connect to broader historical and cultural developments mapped in subsequent sections of this introduction.
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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Not much is known about Watchmen: The Trailer, other than what can be discerned from the credits on the short, now appearing on YouTube.
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This isn't discerned from the observations you mentioned.
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The main point to be learned here is that determining the effect of changes in Australia's gun ownership laws and the government's firearm buy-back program on crime rates requires a complex long-term analysis and can't be discerned from the small, mixed grab bag of short-term statistics offered here.
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The imagery is pretty amazing – this, for example, can hardly be discerned from a photo of a real person.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Digital Images and Turing Tests 2004
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Lights, noises, and singing at night, clearly discerned from the castle, caused much terror to Lady Edgeworth, though her descendants affirm that they were fairies of the same genus as those who beset Sir John Falstaff at Hearne's oak, and intended to frighten her into leaving the place.
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The distant hills wrapped in light haze were visible to the eye; but, immediately before us, no object save the grim corner of a fort could be discerned from the heavy, heavy weight of smoke that clung to and covered the city like a shroud.
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Spiritual things are spiritually discerned, that is, experienced things are discerned by experience.
The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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