pick up on

“Kids pick up on all of that. They may not understand the details, but they absolutely understand that the adults are afraid and things aren’t safe,” Dreyden said.

They pick up on the specific words as proof their team has been wronged.

I get logically why he had to concede it, but I wish more in the media would pick up on the fact that he did utter that, and that should be one of the scariest things coming out of this litigation.

The Soviet agent who’d read the listing had failed to pick up on that important detail.

“When they realize something is wrong, when they decide to do something about it and what they do — that’s what audiences can pick up on most.”