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- verb Present participle of
perceive .
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Examples
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The political media were behind the curve in perceiving the swing right under Reagan.
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By the way, I gather that in perceiving letters we need only look at the tops of the letters for the letters to be legible.
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It is interesting to see how Gregory Cowles, in perceiving everything through the prism of Darwinian evolution, labels Steig a creationist, who according to his wife is not.
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Tim, not so quick in perceiving and adjusting, also overcome with Celtic rage at the brakeman, instead of dropping to hands and knees, remained upright to flare his opinion of the brakeman, to the brakeman, in lurid and ancestral terms.
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The second point gives me hope as it suggests Australians are not entirely stupid in perceiving where this could go.
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Isn't this at least one thing that a poetics of alterity and ungrounded vocality might help school us in perceiving?
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There is, of course, a pleasure in perceiving a likelihood of his obtaining his wish; and a greater one in finding that you stand his friend, — for it is evident that, without you, he could hope for nothing in his object.
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However, Rumsfeld went on, "the education lobby ... is clearly correct in perceiving the potential threat that these experiments pose to their comfortable world."
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However, Rumsfeld went on, "the education lobby ... is clearly correct in perceiving the potential threat that these experiments pose to their comfortable world."
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Aren't there always people who attach particular significance to the degree of a corporation's indebtedness - either in perceiving a large burden of debt as a risk factor or, on the contrary, viewing a high degree of debt as something favorable?
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