quick-wittedness

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Recent Examples of quick-wittedness What a theft of life and talent, and what a waste of care, quick-wittedness, and capability by Reverend Mother Constance. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
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Noun
  • Both love to use their quickness and bendiness to gain an advantage over offensive linemen.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Van Demark and Tiernan are two giants with smarts and lateral quickness, far more capable than Justin Skule and Rouse were last season.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • What emerged was not a steady, upward march of brightness.
    Bree Shirvell, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
  • According to internal WayShot data, editing a single social-ready photo typically takes around 20 minutes, as users cycle through brightness adjustments, color grading, and filter experimentation.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Balancing out work, making art that feels authentic, while still having a smartness about commercializing it and finding ways to commercialize it positively.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • Engendered by the ubiquity of stable and robust WiFi and the incredible power of the smartphone’s system-on-a-chip design, the smart everything era demonstrates the full transfer of the smartness imaginary.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • And our unity with divine Mind endows each of us with the intelligence, spiritual insight, and perspicacity to make sound decisions, including consenting to receiving all the good God has prepared for us.
    Karen Neff, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For all the attacking flair and brilliance that Desire Doué, Ousmane Dembélé and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia possess, their enthusiasm and tenacity to defend from the front makes this team almost suffocating to come up against.
    Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
  • In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, David Levy, a TV exec who helped Turner secure sports broadcasting rights, remarked on his brilliance as a businessman who was ahead of his time.
    Matt Carlstrom, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • In the past year, GUDEA, a behavioral intelligence startup that tracks viral, reputation-harming claims on the internet, flagged two separate bot smear campaigns against Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2026
  • Greek authorities gave no further details of the drone, while Greek naval experts said that its features resemble Ukrainian Magura-type craft — a platform developed by Ukraine's intelligence service.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Cignetti has tapped into a distinctly Hoosier brand of team pride, which proves that his acumen is just as strong off the football field as on it.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • That Aldous Harding makes this impulse look easy without sacrificing any of the cleverness or creativity that makes her music so immediate is striking, to say the least.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
  • If there’s cleverness to the way Lindsay-Abaire keeps passing the buck of hypocrisy between the members of the neighborhood association, there’s also a pervading sense of decorum that limits how far the satire can go.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026

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“Quick-wittedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quick-wittedness. Accessed 14 May. 2026.

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