How to Use discriminating in a Sentence

discriminating

adjective

• Be a discriminating buyer, but don't waste too much time dithering over the details.
  — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2019
• Either Fring knows about Lalo’s super discriminating nostrils or there is a spy in the House of Salamanca.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
• Still, if Biden pulls through, voters can expect a much more discriminating debate about the economic impact of his policies than there has been these last four years about Trump’s.
  — David Banks, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• So again, even with prompting, the habitual users were far less discriminating.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
• The legion of followers the NFL has always assumed to be permanent is becoming more discriminating with its leisure time.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Presumably, the business of surviving by eating what the forest has to offer requires a more discriminating use of the nostrils than is needed for farming.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Here are five must-have features for every luxury automobile that aims to please even the most discriminating owner.
  — Brian Sodoma, azcentral, 16 Mar. 2018
• The antibodies are therefore more discriminating, less likely to fire in error—to be triggered by a criminal cousin.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• In the case of LDA, a stepwise inclusion method for variable selection based on Mahalanobis distance criteria was used to select the most discriminating variables.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2014
• Aimed at a more discriminating class of audio listeners, the AE-9 features such audiophile features as replaceable operational amplifiers, or opamps, to tune the flavor of sound from the card.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 8 Dec. 2018
• Small farmers can serve more discriminating customers while big farms provide product for more cost-conscious consumers, Kogan and DeAngelo say.
  — Brad Branan and Monica Vaughn, sacbee, 11 Apr. 2018
• In terms of larval/caterpillar host plants, butterflies are more discriminating.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2021
• Sound quality matters less, although my 7-year-old has become more discriminating.
  — Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
• All this suggests that colleges and financial-aid programs ought to be more discriminating, yet progressives are calling for less-rigorous student vetting.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
• Wrightsman overcame childhood illness to become a World War I aviator, a crack polo player, and an avaricious but discriminating collector.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2019
• As the discriminator becomes more discriminating, the generative network gets trained to make photos that look more and more realistic.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
• What’s more, it’s appropriate for everyone, from the impressionable infant to the most discriminating music aficionado.
  — WIRED, 7 Mar. 2008
• Instead of each camp championing its own view and demolishing others, researchers will collaborate and agree to publish in advance how discriminating experiments might be conducted — and then respect the outcomes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
• In a related paper published in the same issue of Nature Fratzl acknowledges the sensor’s impressive level of sensitivity but calls for a more discriminating device that can better distinguish the most important vibrations from distracting noise.
  — Joshua A. Krisch, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2014

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