perceive
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Studies have found that visualization — being prompted to consider vivid and emotionally meaningful images — can clarify how we perceive risk and prepare for it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The constant flux of TikTok clips, Instagram reels and YouTube shorts running through our social-media feeds isn’t only zapping our attention spans, it’s altering how we perceive time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
That behavioral change provided evidence that cats can perceive differences among individual BFA compositions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
While others with hearing disorders can perceive certain low-frequency vibrations as sound, for Pride almost everything is completely inaudible without powerful hearing aids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
When musicians talk about ear, they don't mean the sense organ itself so much as the brain's ability to perceive, distinguish, and understand what the ear has heard.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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An additional vulnerability Panigirtzoglou perceives is the assets under management of leveraged memory ETFs, relative to the market capitalization of the underlying stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Both Cruise and Pitt have a death grip on their A-List prestige, hyper-aware of how much the world perceives and enjoys their work.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Our bodies rely on three main sensory inputs to show that we're moving, which come from what we see, what our inner ear's balance system perceives, and what fibres in our body sense, he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Being among the bodies in motion, a boutique is perhaps the last place your mind perceives you to be, but the clothes remain the quiet constant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He believed that the exterior world could be transferred to paper—not in the ghost shadings of black and white but in the colors the human eye perceives.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Mikael Corre, Vatican correspondent for France's La Croix newspaper, told AFP the way Leo is perceived has shifted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
I’m going to respond the same way to harassment and perceived injustice as I would any other space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
They become expensive when borrowers are perceived to be at increased risk of defaulting.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It can reduce soreness and improve perceived recovery after exercise.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The complex workings of living beings can be perceived in terms of these layers: physics enabling chemistry, and chemistry enabling physiology.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"Since dietary decisions are strongly influenced by reward assessment and physical state, targeted breath regulation could also play a role in consciously perceiving and more effectively managing eating behavior," Park summarizes for future research activities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
No damning life event preceded my change in style, though I’d recently stopped dating and found some strange joy in perceiving bangs as another barrier-to-entry to anyone who tried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
In under half a minute, the state’s theory asserts, Byrd and Roberts went from perceiving a genuine threat and returning fire to pursuing someone who no longer posed a danger.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
While conditions are subject to change any time, the market is currently perceiving that flows through the Strait of Hormuz will continue for an extended period, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Seating himself at his desk, he pointedly fished about in a drawer until Miss Marsten, perceiving the hint, departed.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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