perceiving

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But Hsu said consumers in the survey began perceiving stronger inflation ahead after the Iran war began.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 3, 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

The king and all his company sat silent on their horses, marvelling, perceiving that the power of Saruman was overthrown; but how they could not guess.

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