Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prehensions
Noun
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There are shifting perceptions of who is being targeted by the program.—
Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026 -
Their public perceptions are in stark contrast, largely because of differences in how each has approached their city’s problems of the last few years, along with the very nature of those problems.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Farrell and Kidman are outstanding, even as Lanthimos' ritualistic plotting and direction keep them hemmed into their characters' rigid conceptions.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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So this was quite a departure from traditional conceptions of the subject.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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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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This ambitious agenda puts the spotlight on the country’s sports diplomacy, in which athletic endeavors serve as an arena for gaining influence, cultivating international leadership, interacting with foreign audiences, and facilitating conversations that can lead to better understandings.—
Time,
Time,
9 Dec. 2025
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During his time with the department, Drago was deployed more than 400 times and assisted in 100 felony and misdemeanor arrests, which included 34 apprehensions.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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At the height of the border crisis, apprehensions totaled more than 25,000 in New Mexico in March 2023.—
Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Prehensions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prehensions. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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