perceived

In a sentence

Six example sentences with perceived, each labelled with its topic.

• A perceived threat behind the door raised their heart rates, although nothing in the room had actually moved.

  Psychology

• Shoppers walked out over a perceived slight from the manager, though nobody could point to a single spoken word.

  Business

• Players quit the lobby over a perceived advantage held by the host, which the match logs never actually confirmed.

  Gaming

• Voters punished the party for a perceived arrogance that no single speech could be cited to prove.

  Politics

• Investors fled the bank over a perceived weakness, and the run itself created the shortfall they had feared.

  Finance

• The star used every perceived slight from reporters as fuel, though most of the quotes had been friendly.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Found in 2 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)

Each source is a published word list that contains perceived. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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