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As Pakistan number three Shan Masood poked, Brook, who has shown himself a canny tactician as white-ball captain, suggested a reinforced gully region.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

And yet there was still a sense that Hollywood underserved her canny ability to appear both ferocious and vulnerable, whether as a horror heroine in “Scream 4” or a superpowered cheerleader on “Heroes.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

It will take more than stolen KitKats and canny marketing to turn the company around.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

But she smiles her canny little smile in a way that makes me think it’s not a bad notion.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

But that film was a cannier bid for next-level success, offsetting its three-act corniness with emotional stakes that led to a crescendo of its genius headliner’s performance prowess.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

"If Don had been better informed, he might have been cannier about the potential complications that come with coaching an adolescent girl. Clearly, he wasn't a predator," she added.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2022

While voters throughout the country were glued to their TVs and reflexively refreshing news and political sites on Tuesday night, a few of the cannier ones were paying more attention to something else.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020

In this relationship, she’s the cannier and the crueler.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2019

A cannier soul would have made the money go a long way.

From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

Penetrating a well-placed camera can get analysts closer to targets and carries less risk than infiltrating even the canniest secret agent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

My favorite is about the two best friends who started the La Mancha development company, one of the biggest and canniest of the mini-mall builders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

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

Khrushchev soon emerges as one of the canniest of these survivors, though Beria moves faster and initially with far more lethal force.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2018

The moral which fits the bill here, I think, is survival of the canniest.

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