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Recent Examples of incisiveness
When did Kuminga start playing with incisiveness, with an eye for not just a clean, defense-breaking pass, but the pass after that, as well?
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Deploying the Englishman in a high-and-wide wing-back role can give Madrid more incisiveness and quality on the opposite side, allowing Mbappe, Vinicius Jr and Bellingham to overload the left flank.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Deploying the Englishman in a high-and-wide wing-back role can give Madrid more incisiveness and quality on the opposite side, allowing Mbappe, Vinicius Jr and Bellingham to overload the left flank.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incisiveness
Noun
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The 40 Water will deliver us to lucidity on Sunday night.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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In past decades, the Nobel Prize committee has tended to prefer lucidity and clarity, in poetry as well as prose, over experimentation.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.—
Obed Manuel,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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An era of clarity and an era of conviction.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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She's had virtually no pain, only a little bit of swelling and no noticeable scars (the incisions were made in her hairline).—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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The graft is secured with sutures and the incision in the elbow is stitched back together.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In keeping with a pleasing streak of industry satire here—Michael Haneke and Netflix get hilarious shout-outs—Fanning has a bracing directness that cuts through all the dramaturgical throat-clearing.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Pace was central to everything good about Forest, who were set up to hit opposition with explosive speed and directness on the counter-attack through players such as Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For parents, the name of the game is forthrightness.—
Nona Han,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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Her question, in Lipe-Smith’s inquisitive piccolo of a voice, is heartbreaking in its blend of straightforwardness and desperate desire, as is her mother’s wavering response.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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However, Swift's explicitness pales in comparison to the amount of profanity across the music industry, research shows.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Evans’ gritty drama will undoubtedly turn off sensitive viewers given its explicitness.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Incisiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incisiveness. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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