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Prosecuting, Gordon Menzies said: "It's reasonably practicable for clever people to do a simple thing and design a window that doesn't fall out once every year."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

It’s a clever and nasty bit of social engineering — a bait and switch that preys on people’s curiosity and the simple pleasure of feeling included.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Cretton is the rare former indie filmmaker who pushes himself to stage clever action sequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

This isn’t because I was uniquely dialed in to the Bard’s clever use of equivocation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

It was Alexander’s idea, and a clever one, too, for the fern fronds served nicely as the three tiers of oars that jutted from each side of the ship.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

For much of the first half Italy snapped and fizzed with more danger, throwing cleverer shapes and more accurate passes.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025

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

“Who could say what sorts of patterns might give away users who thought they were cleverer than those watching them?”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022

He talked often of how he could not go to university because he had to find a job to support his siblings, and how people he was cleverer than in secondary school now had doctorates.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One night, the five decide to bestow their honorific on Ticky, whom they consider “the cleverest of us all because you can tell the exact time without looking at a clock.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Roy Hattersley, who has died at the age of 93, was one of Labour's cleverest and most articulate post war politicians.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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

They snap up the cleverest and most devious communicators to craft their messages, offering salaries no one else can afford.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

As though Bigwig’s angry impatience, Pipkin’s terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with, the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams