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percipient

[per-sip-ee-uhnt] / pərˈsɪp i ənt /










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The new filing from his attorney Greg Smith says the “mayor is a key percipient witness who has personal factual information” to the officer’s case.

From Los Angeles Times

On Wednesday, Lacey’s office said prosecutors in recent weeks had zeroed in on cases in which Shaw and Coblentz were the “sole percipient witnesses.”

From Los Angeles Times

In a single conversation, he can go from tearful to introspective to thoughtful to percipient to maniacally competitive and full of trash talk.

From Washington Post

In the weeks after the Aberfan disaster, Barker replied to sixty “percipients,” as he called them, and travelled to meet several.

From The New Yorker

My thanks to Times TV critic Lorraine Ali for her percipient take.

From Los Angeles Times