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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distinguish.

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Examples

  • My use of the term distinguishes these intolerant Atheist Supremacists if you don't mind my invoking that term from your average run of the mill atheist who has no quarrel with believers.

    Death Threats Over "Religious Insult" in the US?? Steve Caldwell 2008

  • The term distinguishes the cells from hematopoietic stem cells, which give rise to blood cells, and which are found in bone marrow.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2010

  • The "English" in the label distinguishes this strong, elegant, malt-accented sipping beer from more highly hopped versions in the American mold.

    Independent Weekly: Progressive news, culture & commentary for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill & Cary 2010

  • Sanskrit is _S_ruti, which means hearing; and this title distinguishes the Vedic hymns and, at a later time, the Brâhma_n_as also, from all other works, which, however sacred, and authoritative to the Hindu mind, are admitted to have been composed by human authors.

    Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861

  • Nor can any difficulty be occasioned by the fact that as yet no special title distinguishes these successors of the Apostles from the ordinary presbyters.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • These receptions without form, yet full of elegance, are what English 'at homes' were before the Continental war, though now, by a curious perversion of terms, the easy domestic title distinguishes in England a formally-prepared and elaborately-collected assembly, in which everything and every person are careful to be as little 'homely' as possible.

    Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Those whom God takes into covenant with himself he distinguishes from the children of this world; they are effectually called out of the state, out of the land, of their nativity; they must sit loose to the world, and live above it and every thing in it, even that in it which is most dear to them, and must trust

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Aquila, published in English, distinguishes itself by focusing on a market that would normally read Western-style staples such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Marie Claire, and who crave something that addresses issues more relevant to them.

    IOL: News 2010

  • Aquila, published in English, distinguishes itself by focusing on a market that would normally read Western-style staples such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Marie Claire, and who crave something that addresses issues more relevant to them.

    IOL: News 2010

  • Aquila, published in English, distinguishes itself by focusing on a market that would normally read Western-style staples such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Marie Claire, and who crave something that addresses issues more relevant to them.

    IOL: News 2010

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