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astute

[uh-stoot, uh-styoot] / əˈstut, əˈstjut /


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Mr. Boorman comes across as donnish, astute and likable, but also arrogant and dismissive of legitimate concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Gepe made an astute observation: that my life-changing experience with “Cien Años” was not due to a single factor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Root and Stephen Fleming should be more astute operators.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

Any concession to British economic and military power, no matter how strategically astute, seemed a betrayal of the very independence won in the Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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