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perspicacious

[pur-spi-kay-shuhs] / ˌpɜr spɪˈkeɪ ʃəs /


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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

Smith has proven one of the most even-handed, perspicacious and insightful film critics out there.

From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2019

The device, though, is only one of many pleasingly inspired flights of writerly fancy sprinkled over an evening of perspicacious insights and devastating verbal takedowns.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017

Anyone familiar with his trio, featuring the venerable bassist Henry Grimes and the perspicacious drummer Chad Taylor, would recognize their set as a classic of its kind.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2016

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


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