perspicacity
Example Sentences
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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
Then we might end up just going to places that only had newsrooms and attitudes that met the kind of high standards for diversity, disinterest and perspicacity we aspire to maintain for ourselves.
From Fox News • Jul. 17, 2020
We also have a new candidate, John Adams’ “The Gospel According to the Other Mary,” given its premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2012 and already being put to the perspicacity test.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2020
Just like Marie Curie, who earned them for physics and chemistry and is the hero of this particular Wendy, played with a winning perspicacity by Sinclair Daniel.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019
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
Vocabulary lists containing perspicacity
The Count of Monte Cristo
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 10–14
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Wuthering Heights
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