incisively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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No one has chronicled that story more incisively than Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Signed to fill the void left by talismanic midfielder Declan Rice's move to Arsenal, Alvarez showed his vision to incisively pick out Kudus' wonderfully-timed run for the 14th-minute opener.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
As James Baldwin so incisively observed, “The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which White Americans cling.”
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
She broke incisively on the left, passed across to the right as the Spain defense, backpedaling, tried to regroup and Miyazawa finished clinically with her left foot.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Burr’s response was incisively curt: “having Considered it attentively,” he wrote, “I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to Value.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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