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n. - Lively attentiveness;

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Usage examples (8)
  • It is only natural that there should be peculiarities in the construction of the limbs and skulls of the Dipodidea with their bird-like movements and bird-like...
  • "The supreme leader's sharp-sightedness caused the parliament to change its assessments,"
  • Desire for a present itself became subservient to anxiety for the credit of her own sharp-sightedness and intuition.
  • Mazarin's sharp-sightedness -- either by their incessant and elaborately-concerted intrigues with the Queen, to force her to abandon
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