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Verb: single out  sing-gul awt
  1. Select from a group
    "She was singled out for her outstanding performance"
     
  2. Treat differently on the basis of factors such as sex, race, age, etc.
    "The policy singled out minority students for additional support";
    - discriminate, separate

Derived forms: singles out, singling out, singled out

Type of: choose, differentiate, distinguish, pick out, secern [rare], select, separate, severalise [Brit, rare], severalize [rare], take, tell apart