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

"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

“It’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools and then linking complex multi-step projects.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

Children’s knowledge of how to use a tool could be a result of their experience with the tool; alternatively, it could be a result of their perceiving the tool’s affordances from shape and manipulability cues.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker