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Six example sentences with perceive, each labelled with its topic.
Under the darkroom safelight the printer could barely perceive the faint gray tones emerging on the wet paper.
Photography
Infants perceive the difference between two nearly identical tones long before they can name either sound aloud.
Psychology
Patients with early nerve damage may not perceive a pinprick on the sole, so the nurse tests both feet.
Medicine
Most listeners perceive the two notes as one when they are played less than a few cents apart.
Music
Berkeley argued that we perceive only ideas, never the table itself, and the claim still troubles students.
Philosophy
Customers perceive the heavier bottle as the better product, though the contents are identical in every test.
Business
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