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incisively

American  
[in-sahys-iv-lee] / ɪnˈsaɪs ɪv li /

adverb

  1. in an incisive way; penetratingly, sharply.


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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

The importance of the press in reporting fairly and incisively on the issues at large in the coming presidential election is inescapable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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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