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Recent Examples of incisiveness
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.
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Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incisiveness
Noun
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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
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In sleep labs, researchers train dreamers to signal lucidity through deliberate eye movements, which can be time-stamped using electrooculography (EOG).—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
15 Oct. 2025
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To provide clarity, Meta decided to more closely standardize its teen-content policies with movie ratings that parents could better understand, the executives said.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This surgery involves a smaller incision.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
15 Oct. 2025
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The hospital was the first Belgian hospital to introduce the single port Da Vinci robot, enabling complex procedures through a single incision or natural orifice.—
Christophe Mouton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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In films like that, the cultural commentary comes more from metaphor than with the bluntness and directness of The Purge.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For parents, the name of the game is forthrightness.—
Nona Han,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
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“Incisiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incisiveness. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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