percipiences

plural of percipience
as in perceptions
the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something a novelist who reveals an exceptional percipience of human aspirations and desires

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Noun
  • What doesn’t help are the negative perceptions that employers hold about this generation — and that too many in our society have held about adolescence for far too long.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The shutdown of the federal government, which stretched into its tenth day on Friday, has not so far affected Americans’ perceptions about the economy, according to the survey.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • The primary goal is to trace how these medical ideas were communicated through language and how that language still influences public and clinical understandings of the body today.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The memo, first reported by Axios, says that Congress must specifically appropriate funds for back pay, contradicting previous understandings of the law.
    Nik Popli, Time, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • Brian LaCroix, restaurant operator at Chick-fil-A, said the fast food chain will no longer be offering the military appreciations special.
    Rosanna Fraire, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The release includes interviews, outtakes and critical appreciations.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Percipiences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percipiences. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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