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perceive

[per-seev] / pərˈsiv /




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He adds that sometimes issues such as pregnancy loss are often medicalised, so there's a disconnect between someone's experience of grief - and how others perceive it.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Medical schools were told that their curriculum should include content about “the diverse manner in which people perceive health and illness” and the “basic principles of culturally competent healthcare.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

To these students, who perceive A.I.’s banal flatness as a hallmark of good style, my new essays are not acceptable.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

Because many forms of color vision deficiency make it hard to perceive red tones, blood in urine can go unnoticed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

He began to perceive what this was, a woman who clung to an old and dying man because of what last thing she might get from him.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck