tell apart

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tell (someone/something) apart

to be able to see the difference between one person or thing and another. One guy's a Democrat and the other's a Republican, but it wasn't always easy to tell them apart. The twins are no longer as hard to tell apart as when they were little babies. She held out two flowers, but I couldn't tell which was which.

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