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• The easiest way to tell the difference is to look for a bulb.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2023
• The easiest way to tell the difference is to look for a bulb.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2023
• But your nervous system can’t tell the difference between the mental bear, and the real bear that’s in the room.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• Apple didn’t spend much time talking about it at the iPhone 14 event, but upgraders should be able to tell the difference.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 Sep. 2022
• Was the issue that Clarkesworld couldn’t tell the difference between the human- and chatbot-written entries?
  — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• Scientists don’t yet have enough data to tell the difference or to know how much signal comes from what type of source.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
• So, given the wide variations, don’t count on color to tell the difference.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
• That may all change with the knowledge that honeybees can learn to tell the difference between even and odd groupings.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• World IDs could be used to tell the difference between real people and AI bots online.
  — Reuters, CNN, 24 July 2023
• That answer drew a round of questioning from other justices about how to tell the difference.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• What’s more, experts still struggle even to tell the difference between the male and female remains of dinosaurs.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2023
• Matthews said the goal was to put the product head-to-head with Taco Bell’s signature beef offerings without being able to tell the difference.
  — Alicia Kelso, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• The software can tell the difference between a phone in someone’s hand and a phone in a dashboard mount, based on its motion signature.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• The variation is in a class of genes called HLA that helps the immune system tell the difference between the body’s own proteins and those of viruses and bacteria.
  — Tim Loh, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• And until recently, doctors and patients had no way to tell the difference.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• Diggs could already tell the difference from the defensive line.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
• Read on to learn more about losing your mucus plug and how to tell the difference between your mucus plug, pregnancy discharge, and bloody show.
  — Tina Donvito, Parents, 31 July 2023
• The second problem is now that 5G service is more broadly available in the United States, lots of us who have 5G can’t really tell the difference.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Read on to learn how to tell the difference between the causes of a stuffy nose and how to alleviate sinus pressure caused by nasal congestion.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The idea was that if the questioner could not tell the difference between human and machine, the computer would be considered to be thinking.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 June 2022
• The team could tell the difference between Jupiter and the objects around it versus the distant solar system objects because any objects around Jupiter would be moving at the same rate as the gas giant.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
• That said, people often ask us how to tell the difference between the mood swings of puberty and those of depression or other mental health struggles.
  — Vanessa Kroll Bennett, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• If an interrogator blindly connected to a machine and a human can’t tell the difference based on their answers, then the machine can think.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps even more important, plants, like humans, have a circadian clock that can tell the difference between night and day.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• And though it is later shown that these men were unable to tell the difference between different types of Asian people, their testimony puts Chol Soo in prison with a life sentence.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• While some schools have banned the tech outright, others are embracing it as a tool to teach students how to tell the difference between reality and science fiction.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• That work is now likely to start in earnest, along with more detailed simulations of exactly how to tell the difference between a star with an internal black hole and one without.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• In 2001, the US dropped food packets over Afghanistan accompanied by leaflets explaining how civilians could tell the difference between airdrops and cluster bombs.
  — Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• And there’s evidence to back up the idea that the average consumer can’t tell the difference between a movie from old-school players like Paramount and Sony versus newcomers like Apple or Netflix.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 July 2022
• In hour two, the film’s political vision goes from amoral to nihilistic since the Millennial audience groomed by Nolan’s Batman movies can’t tell the difference.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024