How to Use acuity in a Sentence
acuity
noun-
Sorkin’s vivid prose and peerless acuity for satire are gifts to the reader.
— Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2020 -
And to Timberland for having the acuity to sign you up.
— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2018 -
On the acuity of the answer rests the safety, and thereby the sanity, of the nation.
— Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022 -
At 93 does your mom still have the mental acuity to understand that the song is for her?
— Sarah Rodman, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019 -
The musicians are tight and Olivia has the vocal acuity and the stamina to keep the energy in the room turned up to eleven.
— Eric Fuller, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024 -
Still, the improvement in acuity was small, Levin notes.
— Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020 -
That’s what the emotion, acuity and energy of Porter can do.
— A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021 -
Not only has the volume of emergency calls spiked in both L.A. and San Diego, but so has the acuity of those calls.
— Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2021 -
Blame your friend’s acuity and the quality of your friendship.
— Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019 -
Blame your friend's acuity and the quality of your friendship.
— Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019 -
Of course, there were also some shots at Biden’s mental acuity.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2020 -
To some critics, the pinpoint acuity of these descriptions seemed too good to be true.
— Margalit Fox, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021 -
Her health and mental acuity have been questioned by the press and her colleagues in recent years.
— Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023 -
The crew described sensations of rare clarity and acuity brought on by the sheer scale of risk.
— Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024 -
With wit, acuity and tenderness, Laskin paints a vivid portrait of a young man coming of age.
— Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021 -
The who and the where matter far less than the what itself, spurring acuity and urgency from Staples as the narrator.
— Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021 -
At the same time, refusing to debate could give jibes against Biden’s mental acuity legs.
— Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2020 -
It’s the next level of acuity that is certainly much harder.
— Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022 -
It’s not so far-fetched to think that people could lose their jobs because a phone thinks their mental acuity has declined.
— Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021 -
Age has nothing to do with mental acuity, morals or beliefs.
— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2024 -
More to the point, the bar for mental acuity and stability for Presidents has lowered along with much else in the past four years.
— Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020 -
The acuity of a child’s needs will be evaluated with a tool known as the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment.
— Ana B. Ibarra, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024 -
The episodes might have raised parallel concerns about age and mental acuity.
— Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024 -
Take two capsules a day to boost your mental acuity and performance.
— Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022 -
That with healing also comes loss, because with each passing day, as the acuity and rawness of the loss starts to wear off, so, too, does the memory.
— Maya Vijayaraghavan, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019 -
The lens was replaced, and this time the improvement in acuity was immediate.
— Susan R. Barry, WSJ, 18 June 2021 -
While the acuity of the protective gear shortage has lessened over the past few months, the supply chain is still unreliable.
— Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020 -
But Cleveland is still quick to credit the Fair with jump-starting her fashion career—and her acuity with makeup.
— Marley Mariu, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2021 -
Cones are primarily located at a spot on your retina called the fovea, which is the point of highest acuity.
— Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 20 May 2021 -
Her argument is partly that the 78-year-old Trump has lost mental acuity on account of his advanced age, as was the chief line of attack that pushed President Biden from the race.
— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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