as in smart
having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment
shows a clear-eyed understanding of what it takes to be successful in business
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Recent Examples of clear-eyed
And just about no one on the political stage this century has been more clear-eyed on that reality than Trump.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 19 June 2025
The post-lottery emotions have mostly subsided, allowing a more clear-eyed, less melodramatic perspective.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Investors—global and clear-eyed—are responding not with panic, but with poise.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
But Blume’s empathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of first love became a YA classic anyway.
—Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025
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Philip Elliott, Time, 19 June 2025
The post-lottery emotions have mostly subsided, allowing a more clear-eyed, less melodramatic perspective.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Investors—global and clear-eyed—are responding not with panic, but with poise.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
But Blume’s empathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of first love became a YA classic anyway.
—Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clear-eyed
Adjective
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More recently, the focus was on modernizing its assortment for growing areas like smart home products.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 July 2025
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One of the challenges comes from a fundamental problem in how smart city initiatives are executing the ever-changing digital movement.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Although there are no easy solutions to these multiplying threats, U.S. leaders can significantly mitigate them by making astute, yet still modest, changes to the arsenal itself and to the overall role of nuclear strategy in U.S. foreign and defense policy.—
VIPIN NARANG,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The 51-year-old is widely considered one of the most astute tacticians in the Premier League and has been the figurehead of one of the smartest, shrewdest clubs anywhere in European soccer for the last seven years.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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The Thunder’s championship run was the product of shrewd front office decisions, patient development, and a little bit of luck.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
23 June 2025
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Were these the shrewd moves of a wunderkind on the doorstep of a historic election upset?—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has publicly stated that recent U.S. and Israeli airstrikes inflicted serious damage on Iran's nuclear sites, a sharp contrast to the downplaying by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and one early U.S. intelligence assessment that was leaked to media.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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That’s how North Beach, the Miami Beach neighborhood that stands in sharp contrast to oft-electric South Beach, was usually described.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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“Clear-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clear-eyed. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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