single someone/something out

Examples of singling

singling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They would be a kind of 'microscope', singling out the construction hidden in the classical proof.
The next definition is useful for singling out the environments that allow all non-ghost variables to be replaced by closed messages.
It requires an understanding of others as intentionally perceiving and singling out entities in the environment, not just behaviourally orienting in some direction.
Our results demonstrate that singling out a nameless object prior to word-mapping trials facilitates children's subsequent tendency to map a novel label to that object.
Doing so should satisfy those who would see speciesism (surely a form of anthropocentrism) in singling out either humanity or our best attributes.
The singling out of the pilgrims as the main vector of cholera justified the lowering of the restraints on other groups of travellers.
There could be no question of singling out.
Yet there were political as well as religious considerations to be taken into account when singling out suspects.
In singling out and injuring criminals, punishment differentiates right action from wrong action, thereby establishing what right and wrong are.
With such a broad range, singling out any particular papers seems invidious, and would only reflect the narrower compass of the reviewer.
Their representative character and their distinctiveness have been simultaneously considered in singling them out for inclusion.
The identity criteria for each of these memories need to be sufficiently clear to allow singling out the right memory for erasure.
Realisation semantics is a kind of microscope, singling out constructive features hidden deeply in classical reasoning.
Rules and priorities are of qualitative nature and are taken into account for singling out a coherent decision for the source selection in model-theoretic terms.
The apprehension is a singling out, every perceived object having a background in experience.
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