perceptive
Example Sentences
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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
Vocabulary lists containing perceptive
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