quick-wittedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quick-wittedness
Noun
  • Moussa Diabate has lateral quickness, but being undersized could hurt against taller players on the interior.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But that speed and quickness with the ball, his ability to get in the paint, ability to knock down threes is unique.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The meteors, known for their brightness and speed, travel at about 41 miles per second into Earth's atmosphere and can leave glowing trains, or incandescent bits of debris following the meteor, that last for several seconds to minutes.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Magnitude Magnitude is the scale used to measure the apparent brightness of objects in the night sky.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Pixel Watch blends style and smartness in a way most wearables miss.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After the game of a lifetime, few would have begrudged Guglielmo Vicario the chance to revel in his brilliance.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Sanders said of Ohtani's brilliance.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • South Korea’s intelligence agency estimated in September that about 2,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed in the fighting.
    Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Greta Lee is an intelligence officer pulled from a Gettysburg trip with her kid to deliver some important North Korean intel.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The guys up at Auburn rave about his intelligence, his football acumen and his work ethic.
    Creg Stephenson | cstephenson@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But Lord knows, there’s a mountain of acumen and perspicacity or, in plain terms, good horse sense stored in those minds and souls.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • So the question is whether audiences can find any emotional hook amid all this cleverness.
    Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That insight — that the key was scale, not cleverness — fundamentally reshaped OpenAI.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kleinschmidt’s sessions, with their assistance in permitting him to air these childhood traumas and the interplay of insight and folly in Freudianism, was the stew out of which emerged the novel that made Roth a household name.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • These insights are processed using AI algorithms and presented in the companion app, which compiles health scores and daily summaries.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Quick-wittedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quick-wittedness. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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