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"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

“God Bless America,” written at the end of World War I, was shelved until the canny Berlin unveiled it in 1938 as the storm clouds, as his lyric says, were gathering in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Credit must go to Dean, who conceded only two from the 13th over with her canny off-spin.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

They also share a reputation for being canny directors of actors, understanding from their experience in the spotlight what to say to a performer and when to say it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

“I would suggest Proverbs, 24th Chapter, 21st verse,” said the old minister, with a canny gleam in his eye which Kit understood as John began to read.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

How do they take a cannier approach to prevent Max Verstappen swooping in and stealing the championship from under their nose?

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

In promoting “Reality Bites,” Garofalo took a cannier approach.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

But to do this, philanthropists need to be cannier about their analysis and tactics.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2020

He needs to be a much cannier person and not show his lining too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020

He freely consented to settle every penny he had upon his wife, and, as his mother-in-law justly remarked, “Many a cannier man wouldn’t just have done that.”

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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

But control is just one effect, and in some ways the canniest — nothing else so efficiently earns the reader’s trust and can lull her into sleepy credulity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021

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

Your way of fighting is no just the canniest, but I like you no the worse for it.

From The Northern Iron by Birmingham, George A.