The prime minister will only resign if he perceives there is no other way out of the crisis.If they perceive that a military challenge threatens their country's interests, they will not hesitate to fight.Empirical research indicates that young people perceive non-drinkers lacking in these qualities.Some preventive strategies and vaccines are not used because of a perceived lack of cost-effectiveness.So the primafacie plausible assumption that any creature able to perceive convexity would also be aware of connectedness is false.

The commercial photograph is therefore not perceived as primarily documenting real life.

However, Labour's urban policy can not be perceived as anything other than meagre.

Although Jane thought her father seemed anxious and uneasy, Susan did not perceive any change in his looks or ways.

Is it sufficient that he perceives a suspicion of bias, or must he perceive the higher hurdle of likelihood?.

Emma had perceived a certain bitterness in his tone.

But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.

The human eye is capable of perceiving thousands of insignificant details.

→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus perceive

✗ Don’t say: I am perceiving a slight difference. ► see thesaurus at notice GRAMMAR: Using the progressive Perceive is not used in the progressive.

perceive that He perceived that there was no other way out of the crisis. 2 NOTICE formal to notice, see, or recognize something → perceptive That morning, he perceived a change in Franca’s mood. Children who do badly in school tests often perceive themselves to be failures. perceive something/somebody to be something Often what is perceived to be aggression is simply fear. ○ W3 AWL verb 1 UNDERSTAND written to understand or think of something or someone in a particular way → perception perceive something/somebody as something Even as a young woman she had been perceived as a future chief executive.Perceptibly ≠ imperceptibly perceptively From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English perceive per‧ceive / pəˈsiːv $ pər- /

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