Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prehensions
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The results for the November-January period blew past the analyst projections that shape investors’ perceptions, as has been the case since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks three years ago.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026 -
Mentions of trade and politics increased, while references to labor market conditions eased as perceptions of the job market improved modestly this month.—
Matt Ott,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Rising above material needs, our current conceptions of class, identity, and climate will shift radically.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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As a means of generating its own conceptions of goodness that feel compelling to most human beings, its record is quite mixed, perhaps because that’s not what it was ever designed to do.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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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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Ruemmler had apprehensions about Epstein employing crisis management experts suggested by Bannon.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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The article points to significant increases in unaccompanied minor apprehensions during Obama’s tenure and the establishment of family detention centers like the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, which housed children in conditions documented as inadequate by ProPublica.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Prehensions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prehensions. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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