perceive

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Shifts in temperature extremes can affect crop growth, strain public health systems, and influence how communities perceive climate risks.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

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

Some may perceive this as mere growing pains for a now-decade-old Silicon Valley giant that experienced a massive growth spurt after ChatGPT’s takeoff.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Others had suggested Beijing may have been conditioning Washington to perceive a reduced military threat and lower its guard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman