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perceptive

[per-sep-tiv] / pərˈsɛp tɪv /


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They love deeply, and they are uncommonly perceptive.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Simers tended to probe and kid and seek to stir up things, but Anderson also recognized that he could be highly accurate, perceptive and even fun.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

Unburdened by the contemporary setting that sometimes trips up a filmmaker’s boldest ideas, Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee” is perhaps the year’s most extraordinarily perceptive film.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2025

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

The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Huang Ha, a most perceptive, and also most militant man, focused upon the efforts of the West to divide Africans from the peoples of African heritage elsewhere.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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