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An Australian or a Texan cannot distinguish between a Loire wine and a Bourgogne.
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Lenders who cannot distinguish good borrowers from bad become less willing to lend to anyone.
ECONOMIST: A liquidity squeeze
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The findings demonstrate the volunteers cannot distinguish between wines by taste alone, the organisers of the test say.
BBC: Cheap wine 'good as pricier bottles' - blind taste test
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Traditional chemical synthesis cannot distinguish between left- and right-handed versions, so they have to be separated afterwards, which is tedious.
ECONOMIST: Inhuman genomes
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Gibson cannot distinguish between the crowd beneath the indicator, which is an obstacle, and the crowd around the ticket office.
BBC: News | UK | Commuting: A lottery for the visually impaired
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They cannot distinguish between price changes that come about because of supply-and-demand factors and those that arise because of monetary mistakes.
FORBES: Slick Solution
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They are trained to sniff out a chemical used in disc production, but cannot distinguish between real and the pirated DVDs.
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It is why we cannot distinguish words or sentences when we first hear a foreign language and the reason it sounds instead like a single stream of noise.
BBC: How foetuses learn language
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At 220 pixels-per-inch, the Retina display's pixel density is so high the human eye cannot distinguish individual pixels from a normal viewing distance, so text and graphics look incredibly sharp.
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And yet, until what my friend Karen McGrane refers to as bionic hearing is no longer stigma-free, people will go on nodding blankly to vowel sounds they cannot distinguish.
FORBES: Google Glass V2 Could Be Binocular, And Even Double As Stealth Hearing Aids
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Users cannot distinguish across various sites.
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It cannot, however, distinguish between the capillaries in a tumour and those elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: Treating tumours