canny
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The president, played by Jeff Daniels, emerges as focused, canny, charming and witty in this fond portrayal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
But the pair are just the latest in the long line of hustlers, fraudsters and canny opportunists who have been working to undermine science in this country for more than a century.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
"His reaction, for someone who's normally pretty canny when it comes to the media, is extraordinarily counterproductive," said Bale.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Sabelenka's canny shot selection also proved effective, winning 10 of her 11 points at the net and hitting five drop shots among her 39 winners as she avoided being drawn into endless baseline slog-fests.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The opiate of Zeus’s daughter bore this canny power.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
The book reveals negotiations over public funding for the royals when the Sovereign Grant was introduced in 2012 - and presents the Palace as cannier about money than their counterparts in Westminster.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
If Adams were cannier and less damaged, he could find a comfortable way to win.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2024
Governments have become cannier at exploiting the connectivity of the digital era to advance their interests and weaken their enemies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
He needs to be a much cannier person and not show his lining too much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
She thought of those cannier, less docile hens and laughed.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
Lord Wolfson is widely considered to be one of the canniest brains in UK business, and while he conceded next year would be tough, there were reasons for optimism.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
Simon Russell Beale, to my mind the canniest wielder of dramatic poetry in the English language, was honored for his mesmerizing lead performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
One of the canniest aspects of The Glass Hotel is Mandel’s depiction of how people rationalize the ways they have harmed others.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
To the south of France’s canniest festival of cinema, then, where a buffet of Mel Gibson movies is being shopped to apparently voracious buyers.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2019
He couldn’t write his own name, but he was the canniest, drollest—and talk about strength!
From Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins
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