perceptive comment

collocation in English

meaningsofperceptiveandcomment

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perceptive
adjective
uk
/pəˈsep.tɪv/us
/pɚˈsep.tɪv/
very good at noticing and understanding things that many people do ...
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comment
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒm.ent/us
/ˈkɑː.ment/
something that you say or write that expresses ...
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(Definition ofperceptiveandcommentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofperceptive comment

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The author makes theperceptivecomment: ' '.
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The mayor made the fairlyperceptivecommentthat no one would come out of a sewerage workers' strike smelling like a rose.
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That is aperceptivecommenton a different governmental process.
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That is aperceptivecomment.
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The author is indebted t o a referee for his perceptive comments regarding the first draft of this paper.
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I am grateful to two referees for their careful and perceptive comments.
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Thanks are also due to one of o the anonymous reviewers for careful checking and perceptive comments.
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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their perceptive comments and suggestions for improvement of the original manuscript.
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I am pleased that he had time to write down some of the perceptive comments so that he could quote them this afternoon.
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He made some rather perceptive comments about local government finance and capital and current expenditure.
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