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cunningly

[kuhn-ing-lee] / ˈkʌn ɪŋ li /




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Copley has cunningly offered us, however, more than a pause in an artist’s actions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Passing sentence Judge Geoffery Baker QC described Saeed as a "charlatan", who had carried out a deception that had been "cunningly contrived, skilfully executed, and brazenly maintained over three decades".

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025

This disputatious sociopolitical drama is cunningly packaged as a romantic comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

This system cunningly increases the proportion of offspring with Wolbachia and the virus in the next generation, because females with the bacteria successfully reproduce more frequently than females without.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024

It was a snowdrop made of green glass and white glass, cunningly fashioned: it seemed as if it had been plucked from the meadow grass that very morning, and the dew was still upon it.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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