cleverness
Example Sentences
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As to the famous fine line between stupid and clever, the stupidity and the cleverness are all but inextricable, and to the point.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
St Mirren character, St Mirren cleverness, St Mirren glory - all there in black and white and in fantastic technicolour too.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
“Influencers,” like its predecessor, was written and directed by the Canadian Kurtis David Harder, whose cleverness is as abundant as the body count.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
The cleverness of the execution is as or more important than how seamless it is.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025
In Mendeleyev’s day just sixty-three elements were known, but part of his cleverness was to realize that the elements as then known didn’t make a complete picture, that many pieces were missing.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing cleverness
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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