perceive
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If your co-workers would like to paint the reality which they presumably opted into as unfair, that is a reflection on how they perceive themselves, not you.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
But what some perceive as a negative makes the Green Lantern legend appealing to others, especially those driven to ascend through ambition and hard work.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Their goal was to explore a long-standing mystery: how did the dodo perceive and interact with the world around it?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
He declined to say how China or North Korea may perceive the mass exercise featuring more than 500 maritime events and 2,400 air missions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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Now, though, he perceives bitcoin is “potentially on the verge of breaking out of this range to the upside and breaking the bear trend.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Scotland's relationship with England, and how England perceives that relationship, has layers to it.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Mr. Trump perceives himself as a deal maker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
In a 56-page opinion, US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the president has "broad statutory authority" to address "a problem he perceives to be a matter of economic and national security."
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
He believed that the exterior world could be transferred to paper—not in the ghost shadings of black and white but in the colors the human eye perceives.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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One threat those higher yields pose is that they can lure investors away from perceived riskier stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Data centers have sparked opposition across the country while online “AI slop” and perceived threats to employment remain sore spots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Also included in the inventory were some books perceived as likely to be challenged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
He expressed frustration with a perceived lag in the arrival of aid while the nation celebrated Independence Day with pomp and ceremony in the capital Jakarta.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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In under half a minute, the state’s theory asserts, Byrd and Roberts went from perceiving a genuine threat and returning fire to pursuing someone who no longer posed a danger.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Raging against the second half of your life, raging against how the world’s perceiving you, and how the world looks at you at a certain age.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The consultation is looking into how this would be determined, and is considering factors such as people living together, sharing finances and others perceiving them as a couple.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
While conditions are subject to change any time, the market is currently perceiving that flows through the Strait of Hormuz will continue for an extended period, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
“No,” said the Wart He sat down resignedly upon the most comfortable part of the floor, perceiving that he was in for something like the parable of the looking-glass.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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