clever
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While Uber and Lyft drivers have concocted clever ways to cut gas consumption, they say that without some relief they will be forced to leave the ride-hailing business.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck explain why this absurd-sounding venture is actually a pretty clever piece of financial engineering.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Relatives told us Zeynep was clever and respectful.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Even if her scholar was not quite so handsome, or her merchant not quite so clever, at least the winds would still turn her way.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing clever
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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