Word: distinguishable
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...amendments distinguish between two ways of removing an officer--"recall," which requires a vote by the students who elected the official, and "expulsion," which requires a vote of the council...
...some kinds of brain activity feel like something to you--or, more accurately, are you--is another question, and scientists disagree about how to answer it. Some say that subjective experience is unobservable and not a proper topic for science. Some say that once we can distinguish conscious brain processes from unconscious ones and show how they interact to cause behavior, there is nothing left to explain, and that people who are looking for some extra ingredient are just confused. Some concede that sentience is still a mystery but expect that an unborn genius will someday explain...
...degree's title has since been shortened to a simple cum laude to distinguish it from the cum laude awarded by a field of concentration...
...detecting some things to which human noses are acutely attuned--such as the stench of rotting eggs--but it can be trained to pick up others most people would never notice. There are limits, however, to how well the e-noses can be educated. Wine connoisseurs, for example, can distinguish fragrances beyond the ken of any chip...
...failed to distinguish between the Lloyd's of 27 years ago and the new Lloyd's that has learned from its mistakes and emerged stronger from the experience. You should have waited to publish your piece until there was an outcome to the Jaffray court case. RICHARD S. LEHMAN Boca Raton...