as in to distinguish
to understand or point out the difference in
it was hard at first to differentiate between the two styles of music
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Recent Examples of differentiate
Unlike pure software plays, which are increasingly hard to differentiate and defend, deep tech startups often require more initial capital but reward founders with more defensible IP and lower long-term scaling costs.
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 29 July 2025
Its figures do not differentiate between civilian and casualty figures and cannot be independently verified by TIME.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 29 July 2025
And while white and Hispanic defendants are differentiated in the judicial system’s data, a random Denver Post review of 20 cases in which the defendant was listed as white included 11 defendants with common Hispanic surnames.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 25 July 2025
There, Burns expertly broke down the physical and personality characteristics that differentiate the four animals.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 23 July 2025
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 29 July 2025
Its figures do not differentiate between civilian and casualty figures and cannot be independently verified by TIME.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 29 July 2025
And while white and Hispanic defendants are differentiated in the judicial system’s data, a random Denver Post review of 20 cases in which the defendant was listed as white included 11 defendants with common Hispanic surnames.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 25 July 2025
There, Burns expertly broke down the physical and personality characteristics that differentiate the four animals.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 23 July 2025
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The team took apart the malaria problem and tried something new: detect the wingbeat frequency—to distinguish it from other insects—of a female Anopheles in flight and shoot it down.—
Robert C. Wolcott,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The fraudsters are poisoning the well for profit and if they're not stopped soon, then the days of being able to trust the body of scientific literature, and of having the ability to distinguish between scientific fact and scientific fake, may be coming to an end.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Nelson successfully argued in Veasey v. Abbott that Texas’ voter ID laws discriminated against Black voters during Trump’s first administration and stands ready to bring lawsuits against new ones.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 Aug. 2025
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The lawsuit also alleged that Honeywell discriminated against Li based on her Chinese ancestry, a violation of the U.S. Civil Rights Act.—
Chase Jordan
August 4,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Differentiate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/differentiate. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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