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Recent Examples of percipient
Well-known to followers of the blogosphere and seekers of intelligent, percipient commentary on public policy, Kevin Drum passed away Friday after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for percipient
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According to medical records obtained by EW at the time of Hulk's death, the pro wrestler died of acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Mar. 2026
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The company in recent years expanded into blood disorders with the approval of its gene-editing treatment Casgevy and acute pain with its drug Journavx.—
Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
10 Mar. 2026
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As your perceptive nature sharpens, teach through example by admitting your mistakes, then fixing them.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2026
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The bizarre spike made the rounds online before a perceptive X user noted that the real reason for the change was that Polymarket traders had created a secondary market to bet on whether the odds of Christ returning would climb above 5 percent.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.—
Hisham Matar,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2024
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The world’s most discerning audience for classical dance bent the knee to a phenomenon named Mikhail Baryshnikov.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
21 Feb. 2026
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Those backers have become more discerning and eager to invest with funds that have clear mandates rather than just broad ambitions to gather money across multiple asset classes, according to Young, who won three Super Bowl rings with the National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2026
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The simplification of this rallying cry points to the exhibition’s sagacious curatorial focus.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Harper’s has been a sagacious and elegant presence in all this for a very long time, since there were giants on the earth, Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Nov. 2025
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Panthers bring in an experienced tackle The Panthers have reached a contract agreement with former Las Vegas Raiders offensive tackle Stone Forsythe, a league source confirmed to The Charlotte Observer.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Mar. 2026
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According to an entry posted Monday on the Bring Charles Home website, family, friends and experienced volunteers will work with the search and rescue teams.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Mar. 2026
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As insightful interviews and industry conversations took place inside, a handful of emerging artists hit the outdoor Mohawk stage at Billboard House @ SXSW.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
15 Mar. 2026
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Ana is mature, insightful, and incredibly understanding.—
MARE Staff,
Boston Herald,
15 Mar. 2026
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If a new Bridgerton-sibling romance each season is the series’ gimmick, then Penelope has proven to be its soul—a vividly realistic protagonist whose perspicacious alter ego tethered each fairytale courtship to earth.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
14 June 2024
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One of the few perspicacious journalists of the Trump era, Graeme Wood, put it pithily: The Deep State is in the White House, and Trump appointed it.—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
13 Dec. 2023
Cite this Entry
“Percipient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percipient. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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