contradistinguished

past tense of contradistinguish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contradistinguished
Verb
  • Acute cystitis can be differentiated with a urine culture (used to isolate and identify bacteria).
    MD Published, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The dog family, including coyotes and foxes, can be differentiated from the cat family by the shape of their palm pads — triangular for dogs, two lobes at the peak for cats.
    Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Creech alleged he had been discriminated against because of his age.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Twenty percent of European Jews in FRA’s survey said they felt discriminated against for being Jewish, mostly in educational and work settings.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, set off the capital spending frenzy by announcing a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan at the White House in January, and nothing is standing in Big Tech’s way; certainly not lawyers or anti-trust regulators.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Rules analyst Russell Yurk concurred, and although the NFL explained why the call was correct, the ESPN broadcasters’ disgust set off a social-media firestorm about how the officials are biased toward the Chiefs.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Guests discerned that their experiences were better at specific races, and attendance numbers fluctuated across the seasons.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • What to do in Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the last destination of the Camino de Santiago religious pilgrimage, with its historic center distinguished as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
    Chris Dong, AFAR Media, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In 2018 Marti DeLiemaof the University of Minnesota observed that the lack of a trustworthy network of friends or family best distinguished the older adults who had been defrauded from those who had not.
    Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In bystander video reposted to Only in Dade, Eilish, flanked by security guards, is high fiving fans who are separated by a barricade.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The compute portion of its data centers, which utilizes military-level FIPS 140-2 encryption, is also physically separated from all other systems, including security cameras and cooling systems.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Contradistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contradistinguished. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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