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n. - The graceful quality of a person or animal that is quick; Intelligence as revealed by being quick and alert of mind.

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  • nimbleness of wit and imagination
  • ARQUILLA: We are talking about a kind of nimbleness that does not come to a classic hierarchy.
  • "One of the reasons we left Google was that we wanted to be part of a startup again that had that kind of nimbleness," says McCaig.
  • But we will learn something about the nimbleness of her mind.
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