(n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author's diagnostic acumen has increased with the addition of glenohumeral axillary arthrotomography, glenohumeral CT arthrography, glenohumeral arthroscopy, and other studies.
(2) Several interventions are suggested to improve the diagnostic acumen of primary care physicians.
(3) Thus, the aforementioned knowledge will allow an improved clinical acumen and permit the early diagnosis of postoperative infection.
(4) Emanuel has received backing from establishment Democrats and business leaders who have praised his financial acumen, including attracting new businesses and budget tightening to attempt to close a roughly $300m operating deficit.
(5) But Farage has reacted with characteristic political acumen.
(6) In March, he called Trump a “phony” and dissed Trump’s business acumen.
(7) Her clinical acumen was revealed by her ability to differentiate congenital hepatic fibrosis, Caroli's disease, and adult polycystic disease of the liver and kidney.
(8) But, at the same time, her acumen and agency were undermined every which way.
(9) The complexity of the vestibular system and its interactions with visual input, somatosensory input, motor response, and conscious awareness continue to challenge our technology and our clinical acumen.
(10) Its incidence has increased in the last decade because of improved neonatal care, increased awareness and clinical acumen of physicians, better diagnostic tools and the introduction of newer techniques in cardiac catheterization.
(11) Although increased understanding of normal carpal motion has led to more constructive use of roentgenography, the diagnostic acumen of the examiner is greatly enhanced by the standardization of radiographic views as well as by the use of special projections and when indicated, arthrograms.
(12) The only problem being: there is zero evidence to support the notion that two guys with no known cooking acumen came up with the recipe for deep dish pizza.
(13) It remains a real challenge to the diagnostic acumen and therapeutic skills of both the internist and the surgeon.
(14) Certainly few who knew him believe that he had the acumen to formulate the terrible plan he enacted on Monday.
(15) Like so many adjunct studies available to us today in medicine, it does not replace clinical acumen, but enhances evaluation.
(16) Throughout the convention, relatives and business associates lined up to regale the audience with tales of the nominee’s financial acumen.
(17) It constantly challenges the physician's investigative acumen.
(18) Oxford- and Harvard-educated, with an MSc in economics from the LSE, Cooper's intellectual acumen and grasp of the dismal science is not in question.
(19) Some internet archaeology had unearthed a few yellowing tweets from 2012 that showed him poking fun at stereotypical Jewish financial acumen (in his defence, his mother has Jewish parentage), at white women’s slight bottoms (“A hot white woman with ass is like a unicorn.
(20) Thus our experience suggests that bronchial challenge testing provides useful information to supplement clinical acumen in the diagnosis of asthma.
Flair
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(2) The clue is in the title: it takes a lot of work and rehearsal for a comedian to appear spontaneous, and this is a daft, enjoyable and impressively polished show from a comic with a natural flair for the absurd.
(3) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(4) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(5) From that starting point, he immediately applied – with his colleagues – his flair, vision and enormous energy to create a €1.5bn worldwide communications group.
(6) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(7) They attacked with great flair during the first half, sensing their opponents were there for the taking, and when they were put under sustained pressure we saw the old doggedness after the break, defending with great determination while still looking dangerous on the counterattack.
(8) For a politician whose stock-in-trade had always been a flair for exhibitionism and showmanship, it was a particularly cruel form of punishment.
(9) Wen has scored at least one big victory in his time as premier: he is widely considered instrumental in sacking the Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai – a charismatic leader with a flair for Mao-era grandiosity – triggering the party's most dramatic political upheaval in decades.
(10) With comic timing and a flair for the unusual, Rosling's style has undoubtedly helped make data cool.
(11) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
(12) Their showing was a triumph for the coach, Joachim Löw, who has pieced together many players of modest experience and swiftly achieved success without sacrificing flair.
(13) He had no hacking ability, but instead put his flair for writing and rhetoric to use.
(14) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(15) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(16) And as her notorious campaign ad proved, she already has the Trumpian flair.
(17) Stoke did not just deal with them quite easily, they produced all the flair, vision and style.
(18) In 42 lesions, conspicuity was better with FLAIR sequences, equal in five and worse in one cystic lesion.
(19) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
(20) McGurk would not reveal how he would vote on Sunday, but said: "David is liked because he's got a lot of charisma, he's down to earth, he gives the place a sort of international flair – and apparently because we Scots have this reputation for being careful with our money, which I hadn't realised we had until I came to Germany."