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[sens] / sɛns /






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And one claim is going viral this spooky season: that giving out full-sized candy bars to Halloween trick-or-treaters makes more financial sense than bagging the smaller “fun size” sweets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Though “Star Trek” was set hundreds of years into the future, Stewart gave the character a sense of now, with some of the same problems we face today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

When Carla Aponte first heard that Machado had returned to Venezuela, she struggled to make sense of the news.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Barlow added that it gave "genuine hope" in the battle to reverse biodiversity decline and ensure future generations across Scotland, England and Wales could experience the "incredible sense of awe" when seeing a golden eagle.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

James blinked like I was making no sense.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Come for my colleagues’ smart insights about the midterms, stay for their killer senses of humor.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

Our senses are dulled by an excessive number of “crisis” claims that don’t pan out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

She senses it when approached in public now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

He senses the world changing in real time and doesn’t want to get left behind, lest his reporting and notoriety succumb to oblivion.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Exhibit A, fifteen minutes in: “Look at that! That one is smelling for her son. Cows have great senses of smell, so great that they can even locate one another from over six miles away!”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

It was such a damaging evening for Pocognoli, a bolt from the blue, you sensed.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"When I met him, I could see a real author's style in him and I've always sensed in him an obsession with becoming a writer and a thirst for reading," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

He sensed, long before we could prove it, that very high doses given into a vein would behave quite differently from ordinary supplements.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

But I also sensed from them a desire to be taken seriously as innovative contributors to the field—not copycats or free riders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

But soon the herd sensed that he wasn’t hunting them, and forgot about him.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Cognitive symptoms could include illusions or hallucinations — some patients report sensing a shadowy figure nearby — and difficulties with problem solving and navigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

But I’ll never be able to recreate the rush of hearing its blossoming piano and strings for the first time, sensing the soundwaves from those Klipschorn speakers penetrate my skin.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

That means a lot of engineering is going into the small and nimble robot, including acoustic sensing that works like echolocation and a pulsing laser light to map the environment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Earlier versions of these sensing nanoparticles were typically made as flat hexagonal structures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Kingshaw sat up in bed, sensing some terrible new secret.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill


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