verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
where
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From what you've seen as both founder and trustee, can you discern where art-philanthropy might be heading?
■ NOUN
pattern
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At best, we can discern a pattern in the cases and views expressed about them.
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Quite a variety of tasks can be undertaken, but most of them relate somehow to an ability to discern patterns .
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Respectability and social control Changes can be discerned in family patterns by the end of the century.
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Can we discern contemporary patterns of shared accommodation between kin which might also be the result of such pressures?
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And here, as at more specific levels of religious conceptualization, we can again discern logical patterns and relationships.
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And in every case a perceptive manager should be able to discern a clear pattern .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Politicians are good at discerning public opinion.
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The telescope can discern objects incredibly distant in space.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Lucas claims that such a relationship can be discerned in his data.
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Only a few large, blotchy markings could be discerned by telescopic observers.
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Presently, Cleo was able to discern the rattle of gentle snoring coming from the adjoining room.
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The study of structure and function will to some extent discern similarities of process in these movements.
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The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy.
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Then, discerning an unfilled need, he started a cigar-box company in the heart of the Southern Ontario tobacco fields.
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There are many other issues where this same pattern can be discerned.
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Two distinct trends may be discerned, though the same writer may work in both conventions.