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cunningly

[kuhn-ing-lee] / ˈkʌn ɪŋ li /




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Cunningly, Jez and John-Henry Butterworth’s “The Agency” — a remake of the French series “Le Bureau des Légendes”— pushes its central character to question that arrangement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Cunningly labeled the BQP, for Brooklyn-Queens Park, BIG’s plan has been quietly circulating among community leaders and transportation officials for a few weeks.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2019

Cunningly, the camera returns, repeatedly, to shots of viewers watching the news: a couple in bed, interns in a hospital, employees at a pub.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

Cunningly, the War Office suggested that restoration might suggest to the enemy that morale in the armed forces was failing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2013

Cunningly adjusting my cap, so that it appeared to contain my head, I caused it to protrude a little around the trunk of the tree.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne




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