Example Sentences

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By now it was obvious that the revival of separate national identities which the Queen had discerned in her realm two decades earlier was transforming politics.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2022

He had discerned that the fewer clients he accepted, the more desirable his services would appear.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2021

The depression that Model had discerned at their first meeting afflicted Arbus repeatedly in later years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2016

How could they relate to how my stomach churned when I thought a blind date had discerned the truth of how my husband died?

From Time • Feb. 28, 2014

I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover