The phrase "always discern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when emphasizing the importance of consistently recognizing or understanding something.
Example: "In order to make informed decisions, one must always discern the underlying motives behind people's actions."
Alternatives: "consistently recognize" or "continuously perceive".
"No matter what he played at whatever tempo, you could always discern what the melody was," Mr. Jones said.
Tests that detect cancer cannot always discern whether the cancer is one that will ultimately kill or is an indolent tumor that might never produce noticeable symptoms.
Hume taught us that we must always discern between what we believe and what we know, and for many deeply religious politicians (or scientists, for that matter) that can at times be an uncomfortable examination.
He has to try to separate the bad from the true believers, to put the terror of decades into a frame of understanding that even those in the thick of it couldn't always discern.
For plant leaves it must be noted that the OWS responds to both internal and external water and thus cannot always discern between them.
I'm not confident that I can always discern exactly what I should be doing, what is my fruit and when is its season.
Instead of telling the story forwards and adopting the ignorance of the characters at any given time, Cal is going backwards from what he later knows, always discerning the seeds of what is to come.
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His visibility as a poet began to gain strength from his public presence: after the poets laureate Robert Hass and Rita Dove had put in several seasons apiece writing a poetry column in The Washington Post, Hirsch took over and has produced an effective series of weekly samplings of poetry, new and old, with often eloquent and always discerning commentary.
In my career I've written a lot about two subjects: religion and the law, and I'm always discerning (or fantasizing) connections between the two.
I won't pretend that with 24 dancers swirling in front of me, each cycling through the sequence, I could always (or ever) discern what was missing.
