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perspicacity

[pur-spi-kas-i-tee] / ˌpɜr spɪˈkæs ɪ ti /


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He’s a highly intelligent and accomplished executive; no one without his ability and perspicacity could have remained CEO of the nation’s largest bank company for 18 years and its chairman for 17.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2024

Thursday is also one of the few people who respects Morse's perspicacity and empathy.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2022

Nevertheless, the book’s scope and the perspicacity of her writing evince the reading and thinking of a long life well lived.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2022

Embedding herself into various corners of the bureaucratic medical machine, Maloney describes everyone she encounters with the same perspicacity.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

The goat, which had slid about during the transfer, regarded him with bright-eyed perspicacity, but made no sound.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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