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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using the eyes
accommodate
accommodation
all eyes are on someone/somethingidiom
astigmatic
beholder
cast
chart
corner
discern
fix
glare
have a butcher'sidiom
penetrating
re-see
re-sight
rest on someone/something
resurvey
rubbernecking
sighting
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Examples of discerned

discerned

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

The identity of these factors is unlikely to be discerned from demographic records and presumably reflects the influence of social changes.
This was an especially important step because unequal variances could account for any discerned differential patterns of prediction.
In this enterprise of crossings and crossovers can be discerned the precursors of the hybrid genres now prominent in our own time.
It is, however, in the discourse and practices of sanitary reconstruction espoused by urban authorities that the most significant continuities can be discerned.
As a path is traversed through the tree, a combination of motifs affecting expression is discerned.
European structures and developments can only be discerned in individual regions and nations when their particular qualities and features are more clearly demonstrated.
Still, some sharing networks can be discerned in terms of who is carrying out much of the hunting and gathering activity in the village today.
In order to determine the amount of the subsidy, several relevant risk groups are discerned.
These works tend to be either occasional/celebratory or mythological, and to date no covert or subversive commentaries have been discerned in them.
Tracing their contributions shows how national consciousness can be discerned long before the ' nationalism ' classically exemplified in 1848 or sometimes ante-dated to 1707.
Here only the chromatic descent will be discerned: the darkness has finally made the outline of the butterflies that cause it invisible.
Changes in reading patterns were discerned, from reading novels to short stories, and from journals and magazines to the daily newspaper.
Nevertheless, indications of priorities, potential barriers and possible outcomes can be discerned.
For example, predation strategies can only be discerned through comparison of assemblages for which postdepositional histories and the influence of chemical weathering are demonstrably equivalent.
We quickly discerned a mutual interest in philosophy of healthcare as well as the foundations of clinical bioethics.
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