canny
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She beamed when the first wicket came - New Zealand batter Georgia Plimmer done in the air by some canny flight and picking out mid-off.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Once considered a canny innovator, and then, with his purchase of the flailing Washington Post, a white knight, he has since become the embodiment of capitalism run amok.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Griffin even made for himself an industry town called Frostproof—a canny, if defiant, advertising play, named years prior, after the town had survived the mythic 1895 freeze without much issue.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
They were also, the canny saleswoman believed, things that women were not likely to buy for themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
But he was also canny enough to know when to let up on the crew, when to flatter them, when to implore them, when to joke around with them.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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