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discrete
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    Precise and uncluttered, they invite us into some corner of a household at some discrete hour in which the entire human condition is suddenly within reach, if heartbreakingly so.†  (source)
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    In life they were discrete as cane fields, each with his own character and history and way of talking.†  (source)
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    It was confusing, each sound running into the next sound, like the mingling reverberations of bells, until I learned to separate the sounds, and then they overlapped, each soft but distinct, increasing but discrete, peals of laughter.†  (source)
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    I think of the muscles of his legs, defined by years of roadwork into sinuous braids of discrete tensions.†  (source)
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    He winked at her discretely and then banged his head against the glass, this time hard enough to give himself a headache.†  (source)
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    I then thought of going to New York, as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was rather inclin'd to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might, if I stay'd, soon bring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscrete means not and reverses the meaning of discrete. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    On the other, we have a great deal of ASW arrayed to locate her, and she will be heading towards one of only a few discrete locations.†  (source)
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    But he can't afford to, because he'll probably have to drop CS 22-Discrete Math.†  (source)
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    She made him speak in lines that were difficult to sound-bite, discrete units of ideas, notions.†  (source)
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    I would move off a discrete distance, out of sight, but within easy talking distance.†  (source)
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    In this, her small, green country, surrounded by an embrasure of old Charleston brick, there were camellias of distinction, eight discrete varieties of azaleas, and a host of other flowers, but she directed her prime attention to the growing of roses.†  (source)
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    He says there are no such things as discrete objects which remain unchanged, set apart from the flow of time.†  (source)
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    When an intelligence agency intercepted a code containing sensitive data, cryptographers each worked on a discrete section of the code.†  (source)
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