clear-headed
Britishadjective
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Without an overall strategy, he said, the government would "struggle to address some of those issues and have a clear-headed view about what we might do to improve things".
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
He seems fairly clear-headed about his tenuous grasp on life, but Numa nonetheless encourages him to keep the faith.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
"Our paper explains why and how building cooperative governance at the global scale is different, and helps researchers and policymakers be more clear-headed about how to work toward global solutions," says Waring.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
A former general who worked with Munir described him as "clear-headed".
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2022
Between the life jackets, partially, as if through some leaves, I had my first, unambiguous, clear-headed glimpse of Richard Parker.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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