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perceptive

[per-sep-tiv] / pərˈsɛp tɪv /


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Villarreal: Are you, Carrie, as perceptive as Elsbeth?

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Much of what he writes in this piece—on the dangers of crazy people and rogue regimes accessing powerful AI tools, and on the ill-advisability of selling semiconductors to China—is perceptive and interesting.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 2026

Twelve months on, their visit brought more words of caution from Amorim about his side's evolution that proved equally perceptive.

From BBC Nov. 24, 2025

There, in the confines of its pages, Nora recognizes that her father has a much more innate and perceptive knowledge of her that neither of them ever could’ve imagined.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2025

Was she a perceptive advocate for her history and her people with the courage to stand up to Rome?

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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