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[sens] / sɛns /






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"It's very much child-led. The child ends up having so much control that there's no sense of safety coming from the outside."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sensory organs in their eight feet and two antenna-like palps sense heat or carbon dioxide from people passing by, and they quickly climb aboard, piercing the flesh with long, barbed mouthparts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“It’s playing out in a kind of celebratory way—look at what we can do, look at who we are—that’s the sense you’re getting from his supporters.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

From there, you will have a better sense of how to use it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

I began to have a sense of the magnitude of what we were here to do.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Magnetoreception remains one of the least understood senses found in nature.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

In all my years of picking apart films to grasp why they appeal to my senses, I’ve watched others’ curiosity decline, especially in the face of someone else’s passion.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Readers’ senses are engaged as Muratov pauses in one place or another, such as in the Campagna on the outskirts of Rome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Derek Holt, chief economist at Scotiabank, says he senses there is a “center within the committee that hasn’t quite bought the need to move.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

The air is a different kind of cold, the kind of frigid that shocks the senses awake, as if the forest is warning us to keep our eyes open.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

"When I met him, I could see a real author's style in him and I've always sensed in him an obsession with becoming a writer and a thirst for reading," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

I froze and wondered if he sensed my fight-or-flight response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

He sensed, long before we could prove it, that very high doses given into a vein would behave quite differently from ordinary supplements.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Prenga, who arrived with 20 knockouts from his 20 victories but little profile even with boxing's hardcore followers, sensed an opportunity.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

She told my parents that she sensed a mystical presence when she first laid eyes on me.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

There are no lyrics to bungle or judgments about pitch, just the sensation of instantly getting on the same page with dozens of strangers and sensing the powerful community in that moment.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Talk of “plant sentience,” he argues, confounds sensing with sentience, which is generally taken to be synonymous with consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"You can do multidimensional magnetic sensing with one sensor only. Before, you needed to put two sensors to measure the magnetic field in two directions."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

About 15 minutes later, after sensing that it is running low on spray – water for today's purposes – the aircraft lands itself for a manual refill and demonstration battery swap.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Chitto nodded, sensing she was talking about more than just the day.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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