perceiving

Society is generally bad at perceiving how old Black people are.

The negative effects of adolescents perceiving themselves as overweight can last for years into adulthood, long after the screenings have ended, according to one 2023 survey.

Yet doctors worried about diminishing financial returns are perceiving a scarcity that doesn't exist: there's no shortage of patients.

For example, they can prevent immune cells from perceiving cancer cells as a threat or render them inactive.

These types of diseases occur when the immune system attacks healthy cells after wrongly perceiving them as a threat.