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Recent Examples of perceptibly
Public funding in Kansas The emotion about keeping the Royals in Missouri has perceptibly changed in the last 10 days.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
After trying out a shot in the fourth episode in which Kim smiled, barely perceptibly, while watching Jimmy pull off a stunt, the creators settled into the idea that her character wasn’t a scold but was turned on by Jimmy’s shenanigans — and could be a surprising and active ally.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
After trying out a shot in the fourth episode in which Kim smiled, barely perceptibly, while watching Jimmy pull off a stunt, the creators settled into the idea that her character wasn’t a scold but was turned on by Jimmy’s shenanigans — and could be a surprising and active ally.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perceptibly
Adverb
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The result is a little over a dozen of ultra-versatile staples—cool and edgy, with a subtle softness—that feel distinctly Agolde and Maria McManus at once.—
Libby Page,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2026
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The film’s stars wrote My Dinner With André together, but there’s something distinctly Shawnian in this construction.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The Rangers are also clearly in win-now mode, though, and can only afford so much time for development at the big league level.—
Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The culling perfectly played into ongoing fears that AI automation is coming for white-collar jobs, a major job market and economic disruption that workers are becoming increasingly worried about — and which clearly has execs salivating.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
5 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Although something is discernibly missing—the sound of music.—
Anna Haines,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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There are no star turns, no parts that are discernibly meatier, no actor without a fully dimensional character to play, irrespective of their screen time.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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This is a day for speaking plainly and clearing up lingering misunderstandings.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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Quincy Magoo could plainly see that Darnell Nurse knocked Nathan MacKinnon straight into Connor Ingram’s noggin.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Perceptibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perceptibly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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