acute
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The 800-bed hospital, one of the larger acute sites in the North West, sits across a 15-acre site in Merseyside on the Wirral Penninsula.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Tragedies like this spur people to donate blood, but the reality is, the need for blood is acute year-round.
From Slate • May 9, 2026
Two of the people show acute symptoms while the third is closely associated with a passenger who died onboard on May 2.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Demand destruction is more acute in Asia, which gets about 60% of its crude and crude products from the Middle East; there, demand destruction is already a daily reality.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Green, a suavely tough little septuagenarian, has an imposing reputation among his peers, who admire his stagecraft—a repertoire of actorish gifts that includes a sense of timing acute as a night-club comedian’s.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Vocabulary lists containing acute
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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