To distinguish means to recognize or identify as different from others, by making a clear distinction between things. It involves recognizing and differentiating one thing from another based on specific characteristics or qualities.
For us, we don't distinguish between what's in the fund. (cnbc.com)
Perhaps the most characteristic mark of the American church as distinguished from the church elsewhere in the world has been activism. (religion-online.org)
She created a body of work distinguished by its breadth and personal vision. (vdb.org)