perspectives

noun

plural of perspective
1
as in viewpoints
a way of looking at or thinking about something whether she was being rude or candid is all a matter of perspective

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2
as in views
all that can be seen from a certain point the perspective from the hotel balcony was dominated by the lake and mountains

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Recent Examples of perspectives Ripple brings together diverse perspectives from other publications to show how the country is engaging with today's biggest stories. — Kristi Curry Rogers, Washington Post, 16 July 2026 The adolescent’s ability to use their phone to access social media and continuous news, interact with artificial intelligence and play games often broadens their perspectives and encourages individual creativity. — Elizabeth Dowdell, Fortune, 15 July 2026 Her post received 22,000 likes, and Elon Musk—who regularly boosts white-supremacist perspectives—and Joe Rogan have made similar claims about the group being a false-flag operation. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 8 July 2026 From CEOs', founders' and boards' perspectives, the risk of reputation loss in a crisis is just a part of an even more significant threat. — Jon Michail, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 The behaviors of organisms are already studied and understood from a variety of perspectives. — Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2026 Potential romantic entanglement aside, these two have seriously different perspectives on Paula’s predicament. — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perspectives
  1. viewpoints
  2. views
  3. outlooks
  4. panoramas
Noun
  • The sun will hang low above the west-northwest horizon as a narrowing crescent, so the best locations will be coastal viewpoints, hilltops and open landscapes with clear western horizons.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 14 July 2026
  • For the fifth year running, YouGov found TIME to be among the most trusted, by Americans across ideological viewpoints.
    — Sam Jacobs, Time, 14 July 2026
Definition of viewpoints
Noun
  • Part of the drama on America’s Got Talent has always come from friction among the judges, who regularly have very different views of the acts before them.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
  • Locations around Kielder Water and Northumberland National Park provide broad views toward the low west-northwest eclipse shortly before sunset.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of views
Noun
  • Bloomberg's compilation of 2026 institutional outlooks specifically highlights private assets continuing their ascent as a consensus theme across major firms.
    — Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Although money from the first year of the league’s 11-year, $76 billion national media deals helped prop up that total, revenue came in lower than prior outlooks due largely to the suffering regional sports network business.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of outlooks
Noun
  • Reached by several hundred steps, the summit rewards visitors with sweeping views across the town, islands and surrounding sea, one of Norway’s most memorable city panoramas.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • But what really blew me away was the sheer scale of the panoramas.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
Definition of panoramas

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