percipient
Example Sentences
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That question was raised Sunday by Michelle Celarier, one of the nation’s most percipient financial market reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
That drew a horselaugh from veteran investor Jim Chanos, whose experience as a short-seller has given him a uniquely percipient feel for Wall Street foibles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
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
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
Some appear shortly after death, but before the death is known to the percipient.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
