Word: discernible
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...academic calendar, warmer weather means winding down. In other words, it’s time for wrapping things up even as we’re still wrapped in layers of winter accoutrements. Even the most dedicated, head-in-the-clouds Romantic poet would be hard-pressed to discern a Wordsworthian recital of a thousand blended notes in a still very frigid Cambridge, but amidst the rising pressure levels it can sometimes seem like there are at least a thousand (if not more) term papers, response papers and problem sets to be conquered with the slow dying of the semester...
...attended to by the trainers and resumed her match after a brief timeout. If she was suffering from any effects of her injury, it was hard to discern, as she won out her remaining games of the match...
...From there on out, it was a group grope,” he said. “My task as the project director was to try to cull from these discussions areas of agreement and to build the document around these areas of agreement and to try to discern what would represent a centrist, bipartisan position...
Benton, who earned his master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard and later taught at the University, invented the rainbow hologram, which is now widely used to prevent counterfeiting because of how simple it is to discern a fake hologram. In 1983, MasterCard International became the first company to use these holograms on their cards; today, they are used by every major credit card company...
...membership on the Ad Board will give the Board a much more well-rounded view of the situations with which it is presented. It will help dispel false defenses as well as highlight legitimate concerns that only students, with their proximity to life at Harvard, might be able to discern. It will ensure that the Board is getting an accurate representation of the views and values that modern Harvard students have and can decide whether incidents are isolated or must be dealt with on a much grander scale...