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How to use the word Perceiving in a Sentence?

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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
2 years ago

It has for years been a corrupt, murderous and authoritarian regime, and there were often issues about athletes not being paid, then complaining and then perceiving themselves to be in danger if they went back to Cameroon.

Jackie Fearnley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

An American Jew is only used to perceiving anti-Semitism as Nazis in Charlottesville carrying tiki torches, or a swastika being spray-painted onto a synagogue wall, or the Christian right saying that Jews killed Jesus Christ. We're not very attuned to and good at recognizing anti-Semitism when it doesn't come from that extreme side of the political spectrum, but we are going to have to get used to it, because that's what's coming here. It's already here.

Blake Flayton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If a third of her Instagram followers see her posts... then all of those people are going to think that, if just a fraction of them share it on their social media pages, then think of how many millions and millions and millions of people are seeing this information and perceiving it as true. We are greatly outnumbered.

Blake Flayton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

For me, it's the evolution of the character. I think when someone goes to Paris for the first time, they are overwhelmed by the beauty of the city and that's what they're seeing, i think, perhaps, a lot of viewers who lived in Paris for a long time didn't quite understand that this was through the lens of a character who was experiencing the city for the first time. That's how she was perceiving it -- she was really struck by the beauty that was all around her.

Darren Star

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

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13 years ago

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Aristotle

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14 years ago

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

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14 years ago

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Ayn Rand

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14 years ago

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