prehensions

noun

plural of prehension
as in perceptions

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  1. perceptions
  2. conceptions
  3. knowledges
  4. understandings
  5. apprehensions
Noun
  • While trends like these can shift perceptions of beauty and create new aesthetic anxieties, Payne argues that ferritin face also encourages consumers to approach beauty more holistically.
    — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The tipster warned that a small number of enthusiastic residents tend to appear over and over in media coverage, skewing public perceptions.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of perceptions
Noun
  • Many young adults who started families in the past twenty years were raised this way, which shaped their own conceptions of how to rear children.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Whether destruction or technological progress, both are purposeful activities, each with different conceptions of success or failure.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of conceptions
Noun
  • Sometimes my collection of knowledges feels like rash splatters of matter floating with me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of knowledges
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  • Advertisement Beneath their cultural differences, AI safety and cybersecurity have competing understandings of what AI is.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
  • China and the United States would be well advised to seek similar understandings to limit the AI arms race.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of understandings
Noun
  • But the plaintiffs said that Big Bend ranks last for apprehensions compared to the other six sectors along the southern border.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Border Patrol recorded 31,948 apprehensions in 2022, 11,823 in 2023, 4,921 in 2024 and 3,096 in 2025, a decline of about 92 percent from the 2021 peak.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of apprehensions
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