percipient

Example Sentences

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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 addition to these voluntary or prearranged cases there is, however, another and much larger class of cases which occur spontaneously, unthought of, and unexpected by the percipient as well as by the agent.

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood