perceiving

Example Sentences

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"As adults, we overthink: 'How am I coming across? How's everyone perceiving me?'," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Finding their conversations therapeutic—and perceiving a dearth of literature on mistakes—they have written “From Mistakes to Meaning.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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

“The Fed sees itself within the ‘broad range’ of neutral” with respect to its policy rate, which implies it’s no longer perceiving its posture as “restrictive,” according to Dutta.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

“But surely,” said she, “I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen