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astute

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


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Loeb also noted the astute venture-capital investments Bankman-Fried made in companies including Anthropic and Cursor.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

“It’s not virtual reality,” said Mike Madrid, a longtime California Republican strategist and one of the state’s most astute political observers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

An astute 'cricket brain' and an extraordinary gift to hit sixes is clearly an alarming prospect for the rest of the game, which must now find a way to respond.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Paul Block, a German immigrant who proved an astute advertising executive, launched Block Communications in New York in 1900.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science–far greater than his work on thermodynamics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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