Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Und dere are fish in der upper tributaries of der Amazon which haf four eyes, der two upper of which are searchlights, der two lower of which are organs of percipience or vision.

From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan

And we now come to other cases, where the percipience has been collective, although it has not been repeated.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)