subjective
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It has to be a clear error to give the foul and not just a subjective difference of opinion about the card.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Oates, who penned the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “Blonde,” said that, within the world of translators, Wilson’s review “seems all the more surprising since all translations are, presumably, subjective & not equivalent to the original text.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The term refers to the difficulty of explaining how electrical and chemical activity in the brain gives rise to subjective experience, including sensations, emotions, thoughts, and the personal feeling of being alive.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The question of when having a lot of books becomes having too many books is subjective, but that’s never kept anyone from asking.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Primary qualities are objective; secondary qualities are subjective, in that they depend on our ways of sensing.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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