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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

Crewe is perspicacious about marriage and other partnerships, the rituals couples employ, for good and ill.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

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

By then she had performed unfalteringly under the twins’ perspicacious scrutiny and had confounded all their expectations.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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