perception
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This perception, even if it’s not accurate, is what you’ll want to combat should you choose to take a year off.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Just as important as actual interference is the perception of interference, said Edney, quoting the trial judge's own speech as he selected jury members on the very first day of the trial.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“You can change a place, you can change perception, you can change everything with one crazy success.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"I'm very concerned. I think there's perception and reality," says Beer.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Welles had manipulated the audience’s perception of time by dragging out the carprogram’s beginning and then accelerating once the newsflashes started.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
He said as much last week before the Headingley Test - that the biggest challenge in resuming the captaincy was overcoming the perceptions others have of his leadership.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Because of a long history of such characterizations and perceptions, mountain people have often been forced to locate the beauty within themselves and their culture.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
In this view, traveling waves may help explain how the brain transforms a constant flood of complicated sensory signals into coherent perceptions, predictions, behaviors, and experiences.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
A reading below 50 means builder perceptions of current sales and sales expectations are net negative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing perception
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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"Animal Wisdom" and "The Last Wolf," Vocabulary from the poems
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