How to Use as distinct from in a Sentence

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• Off the greatest movie — movie, now, as distinct from film — ever made.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Oct. 2021
• For instance, the dense walls of a building will show up as distinct from the surrounding soil.
  — Gabriel D. Wrobel, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2020
• This tendency to view the mind as distinct from the body is called dualism.
  — Iris Berent, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2021
• The agency said the letters should be viewed as distinct from the opinion and that enforcement action can be pursued.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 June 2021
• The idea is one of virtue — as distinct from heroism or even moral or political goodness.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Know yourself—and others Good social graces also require a sense of the self as distinct from others.
  — Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• Know yourself—and others Good social graces also require a sense of the self as distinct from others.
  — Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• No one in sales would be so openly indifferent to customer service (as distinct from the actual work).
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Many of the individual items in this hodgepodge were written in thick and ponderous English, if written in English at all (as distinct from Latin or law-French).
  — Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 7 May 2021
• As a result, some Jews positioned themselves as distinct from African Americans, said Greenberg.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Shrouded in stigma and secrecy, illnesses that affect the brain long have been regarded as distinct from other health issues such as cancer and heart disease.
  — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
• Part of that replacement was due to the emergence of 'behavioral modernity,' as distinct from 'anatomical modernity,' which predated the former by tens of thousands of years.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2012
• The Grammys, as distinct from the zillion other awards shows vying for viewers’ ever-shrinking interest in them, are meant to celebrate skill, taste, wisdom, ingenuity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• This association is interesting, because the idea of following a model or paradigm is now seen as distinct from or even counter to following rules.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
• In 2014, Trump classified the estate as an investment property, as distinct from a personal residence.
  — Russ Buettner, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
• The four directors who voted to keep the ban largely in place noted that Midpen's mission is to balance healthy natural ecosystems with agricultural and recreational uses, and view its preserves as distinct from parklands in that way.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2022
• Evolved from the Greek word for emotion or affection, empathy refers to shared or vicarious feelings—as distinct from sympathy, which is more about pity and implies separate, rather than mutual, feelings.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• They are usually regarded as distinct from drones, which are generally used under human control and have been deployed extensively in battle.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
• Still, researchers kept working on grief, increasingly viewing it as distinct from depression and more closely related to stress disorders, like post-traumatic stress disorder.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• In her own artwork, as distinct from stage designs for other artists, Devlin often creates temporary sculptures that invite audience participation.
  — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Its supporters emphasized the specificity of science as distinct from literary and humanistic knowledge.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020
• One such trait is musicality, the cognitive and neural mechanism underlying basic music behavior (as distinct from music, which is a product of history and cultural identity).
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2020
• Yumiko Kadota, a former surgeon who writes about her experience of burnout in her book Emotional Female, similarly stresses the importance of seeing burnout as distinct from depression – even though statistically, there is significant overlap.
  — Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
• Researchers typically consider compassion fatigue as distinct from burnout.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024