astute
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Marc's prediction: Clubs like Brighton are very astute.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Gepe made an astute observation: that my life-changing experience with “Cien Años” was not due to a single factor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
You are astute at reading the room and consider blending in dress codewise as important to showing you know how to navigate the power structures at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Julius Caesar, the republic’s most politically astute and charismatic figure, cultivated personal power by shattering Roman safeguards and traditions that had been in place for centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science–far greater than his work on thermodynamics.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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