percipient
Example Sentences
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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
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
Here is one of my puzzlers: "Does B here mean impercipient and unperceived subject or conscious and percipient subject?"
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
