astute
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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
His astute handling of the October 1987 stock market crash, which saw more than 30% wiped off share prices, earned Greenspan many plaudits.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Who knows: Maybe years from now, she’ll even make a touching, emotionally astute movie about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Loeb also noted the astute venture-capital investments Bankman-Fried made in companies including Anthropic and Cursor.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 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
Vocabulary lists containing astute
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