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How to use the word perceive in a Sentence?

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Seeing doesn't make it truth; hearing doesn't make it facts. Recognizing that everything we perceive is filtered through subjective lenses, we understand the importance of discernment and the influence of individual perspectives.

Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

Workers will be loath to relinquish the bargaining power they perceive to have gained over the past year.

Jason Vaillancourt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's an old water system that many perceive isn't set up to deal with current climatic and hydraulic conditions, it's just not really set up to deal with climate change and the changing needs for water both from an environmental standpoint, and then there's also the rub between agriculture and municipal.

Nathan Metcalf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These types of events, which are ice and debris avalanches, are impulsive, rapid, unpredictable phenomena, reaching very high speeds and involving large masses, and there is no chance of getting to safety or perceiving the problem in advance, because by the time you perceive it, you've already been hit.

Nicola Casagli

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

From the Turkish perspective they are saying : Look, Sweden,( if) you want to join a military alliance where we are one of the members then you have to respect our national security perspective, we perceive of these groups as national security threats. They( Turkey) make the same demands over other NATO member states but they don't have the same leverage as they do now that Sweden is waiting to come in.

Paul Levin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea was that we perceive our friends like a shield. We feel safe when Covid-19 is associated with friendship.

De Vries

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nostalgia is a predominately positive emotion that people easily perceive in their lives, for instance, people can feel happy and peaceful when browsing their pictures grouped with family or friends.

Joe Yazhuo Kong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m not trying to say he wasn’t trained, i’m saying the training was inadequate to help him see, perceive and understand what was happening here.

Thomas Plunkett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My encouragement is always that people get out whenever they can to look at the moon, there is an instant when the moon is its fullest, but we can't perceive that with the naked eye.

Noah Petro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unless there is a suitable faulty developed in the audience's mind, the speaker will not be understood. So the teacher/speaker should not get irritated when her student/audience takes long time to understand or perceive reality.

Ganga Sagar Pant

added by adventure_p
2 years ago

People do not perceive mask wearing as an infringement on personal liberties the way that some parts of the US do. There's definitely a cultural difference.

Paul Wilmes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To the extent that those offending populations perceive all of this stuff going on and felt emboldened then that's bad news from a public safety standpoint, i think it's just all of this stuff added up and it's the perform storm.

Justin Nix

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China does not tend to perceive Afghanistan through the prism of opportunities ; it is almost entirely about managing threats.

Andrew Small

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We wanted to create a tool that might enable ordinary people to better grasp what might unfold, to do that we are creating a way to tap into an aspect of the visual system. Our visual world requires us to perceive and use uncertainty, and so the visual system is inherently equipped to interpret those types of information. Leveraging these capabilities with the right visualization might help people understand the forecast and make better decisions.

Jessica Kitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some people will carry on, will continue to wear masks and to distance and they might perceive others as selfish for not doing so ; those who don't do so might see others as overanxious, solidarity is good for us, social support is good for us and those around us. It will be a source of distress for a lot of people to have that level of conflict.

John Drury

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many of our staff used to shoot people. You can perceive them some way, (but) they are literally life savers every single day. We can't win this battle without them, men who look like that, men who live in these neighborhoods, are giving everything they have. And I don't want to get emotional saying this -- they're giving everything they have to create peace and to save the next generation. They are the answer.

Arne Duncan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the most important things about seeing Paige skating is how it's a reminder that there has been an explosion in women, girls and gender non-conforming skaters as well, that has really shaped and changed the way people perceive skateboarding culture.

Neftalie Williams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The group and its members have openly encouraged, planned, and conducted violent activities against those they perceive to be opposed to their ideology and political beliefs.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We need to anticipate that some of those who prioritize creating licenses to discriminate against us will return their attention to states they perceive as welcoming their anti-LGBTQ agenda.

Jenny Pizer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I spent 10 years having a lot of the media be very snarky in the way that they write about me, the public be very angry in the way they speak about me and the way that they perceive me, and I have felt like they have wanted an apology from me.

Rachel Uchitel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The only person that can give permission in that particular circumstance is Pinkett Smith, i could actually see how he would perceive it as permission because we were separated amicably and I think he also wanted to make it clear that he's also not a homewrecker. Which he's not.

Pinkett Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Anxiety often goes up in any moment where our bodies perceive a real threat, it certainly makes sense in the middle of a pandemic.

Luana Marques

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've found that the more isolation that employees experience or perceive, that has a negative impact on a number of important outcomes... their satisfaction with their work, i think it can certainly lead to stress. It can undermine wellbeing.

Brad Bell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

But you have to realize that the reason why I was treating Michael Jordan like that is because I needed Michael Jordan to be tough in the playoffs and were facing the Indianas and Miamis and New Yorks in the Eastern Conference. Michael Jordan needed to be tough and I needed to know that I could count on Michael Jordan. And those are the kind of things where people see me acting the way I acted in practice, theyre not going to understand it. I said to Michael Jordan, Thats great because this is an opportunity. We have 10 hours here to peel back the onion and have you articulate all the things you just articulated to me. EX-NBA CHAMPION RECALLS RUBBING MICHAEL JORDAN FOR GOOD LUCK BEFORE GAME : I THOUGHT IT WAS AWKWARD Jordan said in one of the episodes that winning has a price, according to The Athletic. He said if a certain standard wasnt being met by one of his teammates, he would step in and explain to the person what was going on And leadership has a price, Michael Jordan reportedly says. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan never asked me to do something that Michael Jordan didnt fking do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michael Jordan said people may perceive Michael Jordan as a tyrant but thats because nobody has had as much sustainable success as Michael Jordan did. Look, I dont have to do this.

Michael Jordan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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