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percipient

[per-sip-ee-uhnt] / pərˈsɪp i ənt /










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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 these experiments with objects, the percipient was blindfolded and the object moreover was kept out of range of vision.

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood Mason




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