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as in sensitive
able to sense slight impressions or differences
due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound
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as in wise
having or showing deep understanding and intelligent application of knowledge
a perceptive therapist was able to discover what was really troubling the youth
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Recent Examples of perceptive
Consumers are very perceptive, and this can lead to audience alienation.
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Emily Reynolds Bergh, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
While resilient and perceptive, Scorpios are natural investigators, always searching for the truth beneath the surface.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Gordon was a sharp, snarky, perceptive, occasionally judgmental but morally sound voice on the music, the business and the people — and judgment was certainly necessary.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Jacobs gives these three crackling, perceptive actors plenty to work with and then steps back to capture their workaday magic.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
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Emily Reynolds Bergh, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
While resilient and perceptive, Scorpios are natural investigators, always searching for the truth beneath the surface.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Gordon was a sharp, snarky, perceptive, occasionally judgmental but morally sound voice on the music, the business and the people — and judgment was certainly necessary.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Jacobs gives these three crackling, perceptive actors plenty to work with and then steps back to capture their workaday magic.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
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Amphibians, including frogs and salamanders, are more vulnerable, Urban found, perhaps because their habitats are more sensitive to environmental changes.Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
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Hot sauce: This won't make the final dish hot, but if anyone is sensitive, it can be skipped.Nicole Hopper, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
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Only 38% of parents consider becoming a content creator to be a wise career choice.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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This approach would be wiser than pushing for a package of immediate and flashy short-term concessions that would damage alliances without realigning them meaningfully.Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2024
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In the culinary world, that spirit reveals itself in simple ingredients turning into delicious symphonies inclusive to this Eastern European land, igniting the nation’s residents, the Polish diaspora, and those keen to discover new, authentic tastes to unite over the Alexandra Foods dining table.Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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Kathy says her daughter Paris Hilton is keen to host either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day this year.Becca Longmire, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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As the nation appears to be in one form of transition or another, transitioning to a position of safety may not just be prudent but also quite wise.Ron Insana, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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All in all, a prudent categorization in this context cannot do something blindly such as purely relying on the number of words.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Short books to read to meet your reading goal Need a short book to cap off your 2024 reading or a quick, immersive read to get you out of a reading slump?Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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That makes for quick, sightless control of both radio volume and climate temperature.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The 350-page autobiography is told through remembered moments, insightful observations and dozens of his most beloved newspaper columns written during his more than three decades on the job at the newspaper at 520 W. Broadway.Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
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The second generation of these types of studies will perhaps be more insightful than the first.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Due to problems at home, the toddler had been diagnosed with an acute stress disorder that was impacting his speech and ability to regulate his emotions.Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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And yet Elwood and Turner experience Nickel as an acute narrative dilemma, the dilemma of their lives.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Perceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perceptive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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