percipient

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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. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025 That drew a horselaugh from veteran investor Jim Chanos, whose experience as a short-seller has given him a uniquely percipient feel for Wall Street foibles. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for percipient
Adjective
  • Hogan died of acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, PEOPLE confirmed on Thursday, July 31.
    Julie Mazziotta, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • His cause of death has been confirmed as acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack.
    William Cornwell, The Conversation, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • His crush, Mena Suvari’s spiky, perceptive Dora, is involved with one of her professors (a weaselly Greg Kinnear).
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
  • However, throughout the history of Iranian cinema, perceptive filmmakers have sought to challenge the dominant masculine structure that governs visual language.
    Ali Farahmand, IndieWire, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • This move fhas been built on the assumption that giving patients a larger financial responsibility for the cost for their healthcare will turn them into more discerning healthcare consumers.
    Peter Ubel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Leave it to Breville the Smart Scoop to create a high-quality compressor-style ice cream maker for the most discerning home cooks.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Morris Chestnut Logline: As the fate of the earth hangs perilously in the balance, Bandi a sagacious elder embarks on a crucial mission to locate Tep one of the few legitimate descendants of an ancient extraterrestrial power, tracing back to a small tribe in Africa.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Foster a balanced approach: While data can provide valuable insights at scale, integrating human judgment and industry expertise ensures a sagacious, well-rounded, and likely more ethical strategic investment approach.
    Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • Then hire an experienced professional—maybe two—to own them outright.
    Chad Willardson, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • According to the study, all participants were highly experienced, and AI was the only modifiable factor among them.
    Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The agenda centers on an insightful reckoning: How can the Democratic Party represent itself as the problem-solving party of the working class when its track record exhibits innumerable failures in major cities?
    Seth David Radwell, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
  • This is the kind of thing that Jenkins, a journalist and prolific documentarian, specialized in: connecting the dots in a way that was insightful, enlightening, fun and pure catnip for cross-pop-cultural nerds.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Forty-five years have passed since the late Professor Price coined his perspicacious term.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2010
  • 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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“Percipient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percipient. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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