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Six example sentences with acumen, each labelled with its topic.
Her acumen showed in the first hour, when she cut two product lines and moved the best engineer onto shipping.
Business
Thirty years on the trading floor gave him an acumen no model matched, and he sold everything before the drop.
Finance
The new chief of staff had little experience but enough acumen to know which three phone calls would settle the vote.
Politics
The point guard's acumen showed on every fast break, as she read the defense and picked the open teammate in a heartbeat.
Basketball
The founder's acumen was obvious in the first month, when she dropped the flagship feature that nobody had actually used.
Startups
A trial lawyer's acumen lies in knowing which witness to skip, and she cut two from the list an hour before court.
Law
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