astute
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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
Root and Stephen Fleming should be more astute operators.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Intercontinental Exchange, led by founder and longtime Chief Executive Jeffrey Sprecher, has a history of making astute investments in marketplaces that are undergoing a shift toward electronic trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“The thing about Lindsey, I always knew in his heart where he wanted to go, but he was a very astute politician to get there,” McCaul said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He discovered so many elements not so much because he was serially astute as because he developed an ingenious technique of applying electricity to a molten substance–electrolysis, as it is known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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