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As presented here, “My Aim Is True” is every bit as explosive and exciting as the original release, an album that featured a clever blend of punk, rockabilly, pop and new wave sounds.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

The cunning, determined, rhetorically skillful Odysseus, long absent from his kingdom after a devastating war, becomes the devilishly clever Satan, cast down from his original home after the angelic civil war in heaven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the spirit, tee-hee, of the network’s “Ghosts,” and, indeed, created by its developers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, comes another supernatural domestic comedy, the likable, clever “Eternally Yours.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

After treks to downtown L.A.’s Fashion District to find just the right materials, she’ll mock up clever riffs on julienned ginger and cilantro leaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

I beamed at Aunt Kitty, feeling clever at seizing the opportunity to be alone with Mrs. Maroney’s plunder.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

But Isla understands, and we understand, that whatever she doesn’t know yet, she’s cleverer than the doubters give her credit for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

"And as AI progresses, the robots can be cleverer and cleverer."

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024

Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

"Instead it did something even cleverer — it brought together existing genes, which already do other things in different parts of the plant, to make a complicated spot on the petals that deceives male flies."

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023

“You people are easily confused by the look of things. I’ve had my eye on him for a while now. He’s cleverer than folk give him credit for. Always looking at things and asking questions.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The cleverest among the group, on paper at least, Fry found the heat being turned up on her as the day rolled on.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“By combining the judgment of millions of people,” he writes, “the bond market is the world’s cleverest economist, its best political analyst, its most prescient corporate strategist, and its finest scientist.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"He was the cleverest, funniest, loving person. His life has just been cut too short too soon."

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The cleverest mystery is no better than its characters and, when it’s made for the screen, the actors who play them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

“And is Mr. Willy Wonka really the cleverest chocolate maker in the world?”

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl