clearheadedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clearheadedness
Noun
  • Mary screamed in one of her rare points of lucidity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • This lucidity not only makes his work readable but also staves off the perception that discourse about UFOs and the CIA must be riddled with conspiratorial paranoia.
    Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • So much understanding and control and normalcy has been taken away from us, and to articulate that and to be able to follow those threads that feel really shattered in my mind is so helpful.
    Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • Jaycee retained custody of her two daughters, and the trio attempted to achieve a new sense of normalcy following their years of captivity.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • But normality is gauged by behavior, an individual’s social life.
    Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • And, in the period since, a sense of normality has returned.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • The Supreme Judicial Court upheld Brookline’s policy as legal, but legality isn’t the same as soundness.
    Alex Weatherall, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026
  • Forbes College Financial Grades are designed to assess a private not-for-profit college’s operational soundness and balance sheet health using the following ten measures.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Unfortunately, Americans have proved themselves to be suckers for packaging that conveys a food’s healthiness, Bragg said.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Philadelphia declared a heat health emergency for Thursday and Friday, activating cooling centers, home visits by field teams, outreach to people experiencing homelessness and other services.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Plano’s health inspections function on a 100-point scale, where a score of 100 is considered perfect and a score of 70 is considered extremely poor.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • The artist made the Rhine flow into Kunstmuseen Krefeld through a filtration system, ultimately dripping clean water into a basin filled with fish whose thriving proved its healthfulness.
    Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 May 2026
  • The job, announced this week, will revolve around the nutrition, ingredients, and healthfulness of the restaurant chain’s food offerings.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But after seven episodes wearing down the viewer with a bleak perspective, in the season finale, Euphoria pulls itself out of its own somber patterns to reach for grace and mercy in Christian symbolism, American wholesomeness, and the concept of family.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026
  • The growing apathy toward big-screen entertainment was also owed to the patina of all-American wholesomeness that studios imposed on their stables of stars, and the nothing-to-see-here style of movie journalism was wearing thin.
    Joshua John Miller, Vanity Fair, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Clearheadedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clearheadedness. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.

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