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- noun keen insight{2}.
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- noun The state or condition of being
insightful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shrewdness shown by keen insight
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Examples
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While his insightfulness is inconsistent, it’s the frequency of posting that makes Matthew bizarre.
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The thoughtfulness, insightfulness, and downright common sense approach he has to everything makes him a winner.
Obama: Family 'will stand in line like everybody else' for vaccine 2009
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At a great Emerging Microtrends dinner, moderated by The Economist's Matthew Bishop, the most fascinating microtrend that emerged was moving from knowledge to wisdom and insightfulness.
Arianna Huffington: Davos Notes: Sugary Explosions, Embarrassing Dads, Genial Hosts, the Latest Microtrends, and a Comeback of Irrational Exuberance Arianna Huffington 2011
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At a great Emerging Microtrends dinner, moderated by The Economist's Matthew Bishop, the most fascinating microtrend that emerged was moving from knowledge to wisdom and insightfulness.
Arianna Huffington: Davos Notes: Sugary Explosions, Embarrassing Dads, Genial Hosts, the Latest Microtrends, and a Comeback of Irrational Exuberance Arianna Huffington 2011
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At a great Emerging Microtrends dinner, moderated by The Economist's Matthew Bishop, the most fascinating microtrend that emerged was moving from knowledge to wisdom and insightfulness.
Arianna Huffington: Davos Notes: Sugary Explosions, Embarrassing Dads, Genial Hosts, the Latest Microtrends, and a Comeback of Irrational Exuberance Arianna Huffington 2011
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In fact, Franzen's 500-plus page iteration of the theme, with aging punk generation adults in place of Madame Bovary and her crew, merely provoked them to more elaborate riffs on his insightfulness.
Nina Burleigh: Franzen's Female Trouble Nina Burleigh 2010
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But, on the other hand, our press has a duty to us to be the voice of insightfulness and clarity, and sometimes courage in these matters.
Egypt: After the revolution, the ballot box | Observer editorial 2011
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Like Lovecraft, he is misanthropic, obsessive, fantastical, and off-putting; and yet, his work acquires a strange kind of resonance, an insightfulness in spite of itself, and sometimes even a hopefulness that suggests, at its heart, Houellebecq is not quite such a hater of humanity after all.
Today's Book Review 2010
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In fact, Franzen's 500-plus page iteration of the theme, with aging punk generation adults in place of Madame Bovary and her crew, merely provoked them to more elaborate riffs on his insightfulness.
Nina Burleigh: Franzen's Female Trouble Nina Burleigh 2010
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Like Lovecraft, he is misanthropic, obsessive, fantastical, and off-putting; and yet, his work acquires a strange kind of resonance, an insightfulness in spite of itself, and sometimes even a hopefulness that suggests, at its heart, Houellebecq is not quite such a hater of humanity after all.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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