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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

The recent Rome runner-up is the canny choice to go all the way - although he could face Djokovic in the fourth round.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

“Anyone who would keep pace with your craftiness must be a canny dealer.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

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

From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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

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

One of the canniest things about the Wick films is how they riff on Reeves’ public image.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2019

Of these last, "love-letters" is the most important, and "mixed" the canniest, for it practically lets in everything.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury