Word: discern
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With the information they collected, the two teams directly observed the temperatures on the two planets and examined each planet’s brightness in different colors of light, allowing them to discern the presence of molecules such as carbon monoxide...
...told you in countless verbal settings, without the rational distance that writing grants, I’ll tell you again: Blur is ten times the band that Oasis is. You rank among Brit-philes of the highest order, but your ability to discern the better band between these two leads to doubt about the accuracy of your critical taste...
Morris also said Harvard might not be able to discern which books are copyrighted because of varying copyright regulations in different countries...
From the data, researchers were able to discern that men who exercised the most experienced a 50 to 60 percent lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than those who were not active. The type of exercise was not a factor into this risk reduction...
...this outlook to justify their lifestyle. Today’s hip-hop industry portrays such self-destruction as normative—a development which can only prove problematic for the advancement of black people worldwide. The rest of America, buffered by lingering segregation, is unable or unwilling to discern fantasy from reality and consumes this imagery as authentic, with real effects. Because they believe they are getting “the real deal” on ghetto life, they absorb gangsta rap’s reaffirmation of society’s devaluation of black life and love, and see ghetto...