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Perceived that the screen did get taken out (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

discerned

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'perceived that the screen' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with perception as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'did get taken out' is the wordplay.
'get' indicates putting letters inside.
'taken out' becomes 'scerne' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'did' placed around 'scerne' is 'DISCERNED'.

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(Other definitions for discerned that I've seen before include "Identified by close investigation" , "Caught sight of" , "Distinguished, made out" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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