prehensions

Definition of prehensionsnext
plural of prehension

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prehensions
Noun
  • In 2024 research by Feigenson and his colleagues showed that an attorney’s description of a video could color jurors’ perceptions of the actual footage.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026
  • With housing costs so central to voters’ perceptions about the economy, both parties have put forward proposals in recent weeks targeting affordability.
    Gavin J. Quinton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • So this was quite a departure from traditional conceptions of the subject.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 29 Jan. 2026.

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