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perspicacious

[pur-spi-key-shuhs] / ˌpɜr spɪˈkeɪ ʃəs /


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Graham Robb’s “The Discovery of Britain” is a magnificently personal and perspicacious guide through his homeland.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

In the perspicacious documentary “Being BeBe,” the director Emily Branham seems to have taken a page from Janet Malcolm.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2022

Smith has proven one of the most even-handed, perspicacious and insightful film critics out there.

From Fox News Dec. 31, 2019

The device, though, is only one of many pleasingly inspired flights of writerly fancy sprinkled over an evening of perspicacious insights and devastating verbal takedowns.

From Washington Post Nov. 8, 2017

The Institution congratulates you on your perspicacious find.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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