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perspicacity

[pur-spi-kas-i-tee] / ˌpɜr spɪˈkæs ɪ ti /


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Nevertheless, the book’s scope and the perspicacity of her writing evince the reading and thinking of a long life well lived.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2022

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

We also have a new candidate, John Adams’ “The Gospel According to the Other Mary,” given its premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2012 and already being put to the perspicacity test.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2020

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




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