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astute

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1. astute - Adjective

2. astute - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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a smart businessman Source: Internet

an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease Source: Internet

he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow Source: Internet

According to Robert Dallek in 2007, Kissinger's advice "rested not on special knowledge of decision making at the White House but on an astute analyst's insight into what was happening." Source: Internet

An extraordinary bond is immediately apparent as two guitars merge into one acoustic wall of sound, and their innovative, percussive flat-picking and hybrid fingerstyle techniques leave even astute listeners wondering where the drummer is. Source: Internet

Although the stories about Anning tend to focus on her successes, Dennis Dean writes that her mother and brother were astute collectors too, and her parents had sold significant fossils before the father's death. Source: Internet

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