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Six example sentences with perspicacious, each labelled with its topic.
One perspicacious analyst read the footnotes and warned the board about the supplier problem two quarters before it surfaced.
Business
Miss Marple is perspicacious in the quietest way, noticing which guest flinched at a name nobody else thought important.
Literature
A perspicacious cross-examination exposed the gap between the witness statement and the timestamps on the delivery receipts.
Law
A perspicacious investor noticed the inventory swelling while sales were flat, and sold months before the warning.
Finance
The perspicacious coach spotted the opponent's fatigue in the third quarter and switched to a full-court press.
Basketball
A perspicacious reviewer saw that the control group had been sampled differently, and the paper was withdrawn.
Science
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