How to Use sagacity in a Sentence

sagacity

noun
  • The flip side is that sagacity could help mitigate any loss of range.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2021
  • As a matter of fact, there’s a sagacity now that surrounds the innocence of his tenor, like a corona around a sun.
    — cleveland.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • And at least for this weekend, the sagacity of that decision has never been more apparent.
    — Tim Griffin, ajc, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Kenda said the catharsis and sagacity extends to some of his viewers, who hang on his every clue, quip and breakthrough.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 25 Aug. 2019
  • For those eager to place real-life bets, diligent research and the stock market may offer validation of sagacity.
    — Steven Phillips, STAT, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Well, yeah, there is a lot of that stuff, but so there should be, and what's so pleasantly surprising is how much humor, sagacity, and honesty there is on display as well.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2018
  • To primp the sagacity of their remarks, their illustrious pedigrees are paraded.
    — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Each wants from the other something—the artist’s mojo, the critic’s sagacity—that belongs strictly to the audiences for their respective work.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • What mysterious sagacity from 2021’s newest richest man in the world!
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Their life experiences hold within them more knowledge and enlightenment, more discernment and sagacity than can be found anywhere else.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Anka, a thoughtful conversationalist who shares stories with the sagacity of someone who has lived a fascinating life, is talking about his present.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Moreover, his character is too much of an idealized stock figure, brought on at intervals to dispense sagacity, especially about the virtues of tolerance.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But that scholar would also have acknowledged their courage, intellectual rigor, sagacity and political skill.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 24 May 2022
  • The sagacity of the editorial review community who are extremely savvy based upon their juxtaposition of product reviews over time can also help.
    — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • In an age when women were pawns in geopolitical alliances, Eleanor was recognized for her authority, diplomacy and political sagacity — a legend in ballads even in her own time.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • In particular, Andre’s verses brim over with aphoristic sagacity and imagery that time-travels you back to his youth in Atlanta, delivered in distinct flows that drift and, later, snaps from bar to bar like hopscotch.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • Social distancing in the forest During the lockdown, the tribal people have shown remarkable prudence and sagacity by maintaining the physical distance while collecting the forest produce.
    — Hridayesh Joshi, Quartz India, 8 May 2020
  • Even as McConnell’s power base is crumbling, the majority leader’s reputation for political sagacity seems impervious to reality.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Our jaded, post-Obama media have poisoned the plausibility of this gesture, yet Darkest Hour initiates a genuine, modern approach to political heroism and the Western sagacity that is out of favor.
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018

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