perspicacity
keenness of mental perception and discernment
Perspicacity in a sentence
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Her perspicacity in negotiations earned the firm a far better deal.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.
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