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Readers knew to expect in a Flanigan column percipience and foresight, expressed in graceful, unaffected prose.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I said things like “I don’t know how Dad got that idea” and “Dad must have misheard me,” hoping that if I rejected their percipience, they would simply dissipate.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

When, as Shades whisper in the chasmal night, "Better, far better, no percipience here."

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Nothing can be more certain than that, apart from percipience, there is no matter that matters.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William