perspicacity

Example Sentences

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He’s a highly intelligent and accomplished executive; no one without his ability and perspicacity could have remained CEO of the nation’s largest bank company for 18 years and its chairman for 17.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2024

Embedding herself into various corners of the bureaucratic medical machine, Maloney describes everyone she encounters with the same perspicacity.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Just like Marie Curie, who earned them for physics and chemistry and is the hero of this particular Wendy, played with a winning perspicacity by Sinclair Daniel.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019

Let's just say that it doesn't say much for Romney's perspicacity that he didn't realize this earlier.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2019

The goat, which had slid about during the transfer, regarded him with bright-eyed perspicacity, but made no sound.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick