Sentence examples for the acumen from inspiring English sources

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the acumen

noun

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

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She clearly misjudged the acumen of plants.

The acumen has not made them loveable.

Mr Ahmadinejad, who has a winner's chutzpah but little of the acumen, has helped.

That was fair enough, but at the time, I lacked the acumen to grasp why.

She spearheaded fund-raisers for the Acumen Fund, which invests in businesses that serve the poor in developing countries.

Gaddis had the acumen to follow Kennan's tortured quest and to convince us that Kennan had indeed reached his mountaintop.

He assesses not only direction, writing and acting, but camera-perceptiveness, lighting, sound, the acumen or otherwise of producers.

The Acumen software is riddled with spelling mistakes and sentences that were obviously translated from some other language.

Unique among the units I tried, the Acumen JogMate allows you to program separate running and walking strides.

But public confidence based on belief in the acumen of one 74-year-old man cannot be secure.

That acquisition, whoever it is, will help define the acumen of Glen Sather, the new general manager.

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