as in insight
the ability to understand inner qualities or relationships
the kind of sapience that comes from a lifetime of experience as an educator
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Recent Examples of sapience
The myth has left its mark on everything from superhero fantasies to tales of benevolent robots—narratives where artificial or alien life is in communion with human life and arrayed against the ugliest forces that sapience can produce.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sapience
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Highlight unique insights or data your company possesses.Noa Eshed, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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The practice of reading the hands to gather insights into a person’s character and future was used in many ancient cultures across Asia and Europe.Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Foreman theater answered this call by creating dreamscapes that eluded our intellect’s mania for control.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Hubert began gifting his fellow Orc with temporary intellect, which nearly caused an uprising amongst his clansmen.Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2025
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Bank supervisors globally have a framework to assess banks’ capital, asset quality, management, earnings, liquidity and sensitivity to market risk.Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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Thanks to its large size and exceptional sensitivity, DECam has provided astronomers with unprecedented insights into these regions of space.Victoria Corless, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sapience. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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