perspicacious
Example Sentences
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“A perspicacious analyst might wonder whether talk of inflation, recession and other factors would fructify in a slower spending growth,” Moynihan said in an analyst call in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sam Bagenstos: You don’t have to be particularly perspicacious to be cynical here.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Crewe is perspicacious about marriage and other partnerships, the rituals couples employ, for good and ill.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
In the perspicacious documentary “Being BeBe,” the director Emily Branham seems to have taken a page from Janet Malcolm.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
By then she had performed unfalteringly under the twins’ perspicacious scrutiny and had confounded all their expectations.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing perspicacious
Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 15
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