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acute

[uh-kyoot] / əˈkyut /






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Only 13% of nonveterans facing an acute crisis will get emergency cash or rapid rehousing assistance, as compared with 65% of veterans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Yang: We are experiencing something in an acute way that I think everyone is experiencing, which is we are seeing ourselves in the third person.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The problems residents complain about feel more acute and intractable.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“There are already acute shortages in natural gas, and there are also shortages in fertilizer and helium. If this isn’t curtailed within six to eight months, you’ll see challenges,” Pyziur explained.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Why, Granddaddy had told me about a parrot who had lived past his century and learned over four hundred conversational phrases, as acute a mimic as any human being...

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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