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
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The Denver event, like so much art of the early 2020s, was born of postponements, fits and starts, tests, masks, stressed performers and all the other COVID restrictions and scrambled audience perceptions.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026 -
Here are two other significant gaps in perceptions within housing.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
11 Mar. 2026
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Gelb said the broad crime rate decreases have made some criminologists question historic understandings of what drives trends in violent crime and how to battle it.—
Claudia Lauer,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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And as states started to abandon Common Core, school controversies began to focus less on standards and achievement than on competing understandings of America itself.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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Played on the show by Sarah Pidgeon, audiences on TikTok have gone into a frenzy with appreciations and tutorials showing how to style Besette staples like a white shirt, pencil skirt, and headband.—
Valentina Bottoni,
Vanity Fair,
13 Mar. 2026
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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
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“Percipiences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percipiences. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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