sagacious səˈgeɪʃəs adjective
1. acutely insightful and wise
2. skillful in the management of public affairs
The word sagacious has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 9 in the obituary “Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., Wily Texas Oilman, Is Dead at 101,” by Robert D. McFadden:
One of the last of the storied wildcatters, Mr. Wyatt was a sagacious, rough-hewn entrepreneur who took out an $800 loan in 1955 and founded a pipeline company that became the Coastal Corporation. Over the next four decades, he built it into a national energy conglomerate, a Fortune 500 competitor of Enron and El Paso Gas, and his conduit for oil imported from the Middle East.
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