How to Use acuity in a Sentence

acuity

noun

• Biden describes his mental acuity, but do voters agree?
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 17 July 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
• Others worry that their mental acuity might not ever return.
  — Devon Powers, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 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
• The mental acuity and performance abilities of those with hearing loss are sometimes called into question.
  — Meg Battle, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Cole has become a top-tier composer, marrying rhythmic acuity with lyrical dynamism.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2021
• As a candidate, Biden sought to deflect persistent questions about his mental acuity and his fitness for office.
  — Matt Viser, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2021
• Combines his physical tools with advanced technical acuity on Friday nights.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2021
• Ultimately, the acuity of Covid-19 will (hopefully) be behind us, with many long-term and new health care needs to attend to.
  — Lala Tanmoy Das, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• His moments of verbal acuity and self-aware humor exist on a continuum with his equally sudden lapses into oblivion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Polite and professional, all three of them, but none with Sinden’s brass or his near-carnival-barker’s acuity for keeping his team front and center in the city’s crowded sports discussion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2021
• An unemployed writer rises to the top of the financial world after an experimental drug gives him extraordinary mental acuity.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• The agencies have also been affected by an influx of youths with higher-acuity needs who have a difficult time finding foster homes, along with an increase in the number of older teens seeking foster care services.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2021
• On the acuity of the answer rests the safety, and thereby the sanity, of the nation.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• 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
• That’s what the emotion, acuity and energy of Porter can do.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Oct. 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
• Profiler narratives present the appealing idea that crime is a matter of sinister masterminds being pitted against agents who thwart them with psychological acuity rather than brute force.
  — Rachel Monroe, Vulture, 15 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
• 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
• 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
• The lens was replaced, and this time the improvement in acuity was immediate.
  — Susan R. Barry, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• 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
• Some critics also note that, like Biden, he has been dogged by questions about his advancing age and acuity.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 27 July 2022
• Further down the list, 4% cited his ability to win, and 3% pointed to his mental acuity.
  — Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 15 July 2022
• Running against Biden, who is 81, Trump had focused his attack on the president’s age and mental acuity.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024