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percipient

[per-sip-ee-uhnt] / pərˈsɪp i ənt /










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That question was raised Sunday by Michelle Celarier, one of the nation’s most percipient financial market reporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

As I’ve written in the past, Rakoff is one of our most percipient jurists about the impact of new technologies on the law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

It’s fun wordplay with a percipient message, but fans might be further impressed to know she wrote and recorded the song extemporaneously in a single take, sitting in a studio chair while eight months pregnant.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023

To offset that, I'm reading Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality by Margot Waddell, which is beautifully written, humane, clear and full of percipient literary references.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012

Other investigators have sometimes used cards, drawing one at random from a shuffled pack, looking at it, and the percipient then trying to say what it is.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill


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