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"If you're under 35, it's very likely you perceive these treatments as beauty treatments rather than something medical."

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“The traffic on Whittier Blvd. is unable to expect, detect, see, perceive, react and avoid hitting pedestrians walking in the crosswalk at Orme Ave.,” the complaint said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

At Germany's Canyon, a racing bike equipped with cameras and radars promises to alert cyclists "to the presence of elements they do not necessarily perceive", company spokesman Ben Hilldson said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

This concern doesn’t always resonate with voters who perceive an immediate benefit in a higher hourly rate for low-income workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

If the public perceives that technology is too effective and hunters aren’t “showing respect for the animal, that’s not socially acceptable” and will create a backlash, Schoonen says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

What Ray perceives as unexamined thinking and entrenched prejudice is, along with a clear warning about climate change, very present in “Burn the Water.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

In a 56-page opinion, US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the president has "broad statutory authority" to address "a problem he perceives to be a matter of economic and national security."

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Whaite explained he has bulimia, an eating disorder, and body dysmorphia, where a person perceives defects in their own body which are often less noticeable to others.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

He believed that the exterior world could be transferred to paper—not in the ghost shadings of black and white but in the colors the human eye perceives.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

At the center of each case Apple has pursued was a perceived breach of trust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Many people have been put off that idea owing to the perceived complication of wages being paid into that account, and direct debits and the like needing to be moved.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

A reporting system that was originally designed to address intentional physical abuse now encourages people to report any perceived shortcoming in the care of children.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

“I was concerned about how that might be perceived and whether it would hold me back from getting promotions,” he said, or that it would imply that he was “lacking in ambition.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

It laid hold of the iron ring, and then it perceived me and my spell.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

While conditions are subject to change any time, the market is currently perceiving that flows through the Strait of Hormuz will continue for an extended period, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

But the more we do that, the more things there are for us to pay attention to and the more worries we have about how other people are perceiving us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

"Pain is an extremely efficient means for perceiving damage to the body and to indicate the associated threat to its continued life. This often triggers a survival response, such as fleeing or freezing."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025

Emojis can have an "infantile connotation" which could lead to people perceiving you as younger, less senior, capable or responsible, he says.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

And whereas before, her mother’s and Jaimito’s mother’s hints were the intrusion of elders into what was none of their business, now it seems the old people were perceiving destiny.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez