Sample Sentences for
differentiate
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differentiate as in:  differentiate between right/wrong

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The jury determined that she was able to differentiate between right and wrong.
differentiate = recognize difference
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    The software does a good job of differentiating between real messages and spam.
    differentiating = recognizing difference
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    The software recognizes different IP addresses, but does not differentiate between users of an address.
    differentiate = recognize difference
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    That word, however, does not differentiate between the sexes.  (source)
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    As I plodded toward him through the snow I began to differentiate items of clothing—a dull green deer-stalker's cap, brown ear muffs, a thick gray woolen scarf—  (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference
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    But my mom knew more about differentiated thyroid carcinoma in adolescents than most oncologists.  (source)
    differentiated = recognized as different
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    Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.  (source)
    undifferentiated = without recognizing differences
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undifferentiated means not and reverses the meaning of differentiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.  (source)
    differentiating = recognizing difference
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    He noted that early on, Calderon had referred to securing return of "ship, merchandise, and negroes," which showed a differentiation between men and cargo, and yet in later letters, he demanded return of the blacks under Pickney's Treaty because they were "part of the ship's manifested cargo."  (source)
    differentiation = act of recognizing difference
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    But if God created everyone, Cedric mulls, tapping his pencil eraser on the desktop, what ultimately differentiates the winners from the rest?†  (source)
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    The differentiations of sex, age, and occupation are not essential to our character, but mere costumes which we wear for a time on the stage of the world.†  (source)
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    I think I will stop putting quotation marks around Nothing's name because it is annoying and disrupting my flow. I hope you do not find this difficult to follow. I will make sure to differentiate if something comes up.  (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference
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    The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.  (source)
    differentiated = recognized as different
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    The cliff face passed by, undifferentiated, featureless.  (source)
    undifferentiated = without recognized difference
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differentiate as in:  differentiate our product

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    Her view of this issue differentiates her from most progressives in Congress.
    differentiates = makes different
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    Instead, students were required to use their real first names, followed by a number, to differentiate them from other students with the same name.  (source)
    differentiate = make different
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    As we age, these multipotential or totipotential cells differentiate more so that fewer of them remain that can change into anything else.  (source)
    differentiate = become different
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    This kind of exchange does not require quite as much physical differentiation between male and female as we usually think exists.  (source)
    differentiation = difference
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    The organization's final name became "the Section for Special Analysis," the SSA, and in daily parlance, "the Section," to differentiate it from "the Division" or "the Firm," which referred to the Security Police as a whole.  (source)
    differentiate = make different
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    He began speaking with the peculiar grave courtesy that differentiated him from the majority of Inner Party members.  (source)
    differentiated = made different
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    She thought of what she did as offering "undifferentiated help to anybody."  (source)
    undifferentiated = without difference
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undifferentiated means not and reverses the meaning of differentiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    But the people of Salem in 1692 were not quite the dedicated folk that arrived on the Mayflower. A vast differentiation had taken place, and in their own time a revolution had unseated the royal government and substituted a junta which was at this moment in power.  (source)
    differentiation = change to something different
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    A student of aesthetics and philosophy, in training to see the patterns in which one thing was differentiated from another, Alessandro noticed this immediately.  (source)
    differentiated = made different
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    That he was lean, strong, and deeply sunburnt, added to the differentiation.  (source)
    differentiation = difference
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    The eldest, a child psychologist, admonished the mother in an autobiographical paper, "I Was There Too," by saying that the color system had weakened the four girls' identity differentiation abilities and made them forever unclear about personality boundaries.  (source)
    differentiation = to establish difference
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    So what's going on here? Character differentiation, certainly. The missing member sets Jake apart from everyone else in the novel, or any other novel I know of, for that matter.  (source)
    differentiation = making different than others
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    Turns out there's some differentiation to them.†  (source)
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