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Recent Examples of receptivity
With Mercury and later the sun in Scorpio, your communication sector becomes supercharged, heightening your psychic receptivity and investigative nature.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Such episodes remind us that philosophy, at its best, thrives on receptivity and the humility to change direction.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Though the recent ruling applied to immigration, some civil rights advocates fear the Court may be signaling receptivity to greater racial profiling in criminal enforcement, too.
—Ronald Brownstein, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Confirm certification requirements, logistics challenges, and receptivity before scaling.
—Eric Youngstrom, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Collaborations are a good way for brands to dip their toes into the shoe market and explore customer receptivity to a new category.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
As George Orwell appreciated, the correlate is that social and historical progress require an awareness of, and receptivity to, both historical fact and competing historical narratives.
—Laura Beers, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Such episodes remind us that philosophy, at its best, thrives on receptivity and the humility to change direction.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Though the recent ruling applied to immigration, some civil rights advocates fear the Court may be signaling receptivity to greater racial profiling in criminal enforcement, too.
—Ronald Brownstein, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Confirm certification requirements, logistics challenges, and receptivity before scaling.
—Eric Youngstrom, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Collaborations are a good way for brands to dip their toes into the shoe market and explore customer receptivity to a new category.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
As George Orwell appreciated, the correlate is that social and historical progress require an awareness of, and receptivity to, both historical fact and competing historical narratives.
—Laura Beers, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for receptivity
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This receptiveness led to Ockenfels’ favorite pictures from their partnership — inspired by the facial distortions in the paintings of Francis Bacon — in which bendings of glass were employed to warp Bowie’s likeness.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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However, Gedan noted there is receptiveness to investment from China, even beyond the oil sector.—
Anabella González,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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Lufthansa also commissioned a study conducted by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, which found the combination of dryness and low pressure also reduces the sensitivity of taste buds for both sweet and salty by 30 percent.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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Millions of Americans experience food sensitivities or allergies every year.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Yet even among a number of Christians seeking to raise awareness and intensify efforts to put an end to systematic abuses committed by Boko Haram and other jihadi movements, the prospect of foreign intervention raises serious concerns.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Here’s where the show does have some awareness about its characters’ problematic indiscretions, and Carrington pushes back to point out that a relationship with a trans woman isn’t anything to be ashamed of.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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Thanks to the song’s inclusion in the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle, rock music entered the American consciousness with its visual identity and mythos already set.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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In this Air sign, the Lord of the Underworld is pushing us toward a future where individual freedom and collective consciousness replace outdated systems of control.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Just like in mindfulness meditation, simply observe your mental processes without judgment.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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Burke also uses the Fitbit app, which offers different workout and mindfulness classes.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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That aliveness and sense of immediacy are what animate Woolf’s prose—and her heroine.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
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The current Super Cruise system monitors a driver's attentiveness through the use of sensors and eye-detection cameras.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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His possession-by-possession attentiveness was not good.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Receptivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/receptivity. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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