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  • To ascertain the truth, we focus more intently on the screen.  (source)
    ascertain = find out or learn
  • Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam.†  (source)
  • Without knowing how far away the source was, it was impossible to ascertain its exact coordinates.†  (source)
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  • In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be natural or man-made—and the Taliban are a disaster, Amir, believe me—it's always difficult to ascertain that a child is an orphan.†  (source)
  • But, as the reader of this will have ascertained (if there ever is a reader) the idea of being Dragged Down holds no terror for me.†  (source)
  • The outstations in Kunar and across Afghanistan were intelligence depots for the surrounding areas, with operators ascertaining the viability of targets in their sectors, to judge if a certain reportedly "bad guy" really was a bad guy, and if so, how bad.†  (source)
  • But what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.†  (source)
  • Guy Francon descended from his office once in a while, for no ascertainable purpose.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • At the start of the great heat, for some unascertained reason, the evenings found the streets almost empty.†  (source)
    unascertained = not learned
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unascertained means not and reverses the meaning of ascertained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • A bourgeois court of arbitration that decides questions of life and death, ascertains God's will, and ordains the course of history.†  (source)
  • Shortly before I'd been arrested by IOI, I'd taken some time to examine the toy Leopardon robot and ascertain its powers.†  (source)
  • He ascertained that there was no car in the driveway or in the garage.†  (source)
  • Even though she was perfectly proportioned, she was short, and sometimes she jumped to reach things, but only after ascertaining that no one would see.†  (source)
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