percipient
Example Sentences
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That question was raised Sunday by Michelle Celarier, one of the nation’s most percipient financial market reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
As I’ve written in the past, Rakoff is one of our most percipient jurists about the impact of new technologies on the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
It’s fun wordplay with a percipient message, but fans might be further impressed to know she wrote and recorded the song extemporaneously in a single take, sitting in a studio chair while eight months pregnant.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023
To offset that, I'm reading Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality by Margot Waddell, which is beautifully written, humane, clear and full of percipient literary references.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
It is at present still doubtful how far close proximity really operates in aid of telepathy, or how far its advantage is a mere effect of self-suggestion—on the part either of agent or of percipient.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
