percipient
Example Sentences
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As I’ve written in the past, Rakoff is one of our most percipient jurists about the impact of new technologies on the law.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
It’s fun wordplay with a percipient message, but fans might be further impressed to know she wrote and recorded the song extemporaneously in a single take, sitting in a studio chair while eight months pregnant.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023
My thanks to Times TV critic Lorraine Ali for her percipient take.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2018
To offset that, I'm reading Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality by Margot Waddell, which is beautifully written, humane, clear and full of percipient literary references.
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012
In other cases the "psychical invasion" of the spirit either of a living or of a deceased person seems to set up a variety of sleep-waking states—both in agent and percipient.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
