percipient
Example Sentences
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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
That drew a horselaugh from veteran investor Jim Chanos, whose experience as a short-seller has given him a uniquely percipient feel for Wall Street foibles.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2023
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
And I observe—as telling against that other view, of psychical contagion—that in certain collective cases we discern no probable link between any one of the percipient minds and the distant agent.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
