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“It’s this shrewd way that they’re protecting their information and eluding public oversight,” Shapiro said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

That is a shrewd move when competition for computing power to feed AI is fierce both inside the company and among customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

So was it a shrewd move by Norway to make so many changes - or the wrong decision?

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

In drawing the moral to this experience, Graham wrote: “One lucky break, or one supremely shrewd decision — can we tell them apart? — may count for more than a lifetime of journeyman efforts.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Hannah’s shrewd little eyes studied the girl’s downcast face.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

One of their shrewder tactics is to begin the story as an odd-couple courtship as Ernest, a war veteran, ingratiates himself with the wealthy, wary Mollie.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2023

She proved stronger and shrewder than more experienced rivals, coming through to win in one minute 57.98 seconds.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021

In shrewder hands, this could read as a critique of the tourist-board shilling of certain movies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

Someone shrewder could have made better use of its marriage of history and blockbuster cinema to comment on our addiction to violent, explosive versions of American mythmaking.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2021

Or she won't, a shrewder voice in his head suggested.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

That’s the hypothesis of one of the world’s shrewdest and most respected analysts of geopolitics and energy, Cambridge University political economy professor Helen Thompson.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026

Klein Halevi is one of the shrewdest and most thoughtful analysts of Israeli politics and society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Ashworth's glittering reputation as one of the game's shrewdest operators meant he was regarded as a prized, crucial acquisition but left in December 2024 after only five months at Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

Jude: Signing Nwosu was one of the Seahawks’ shrewdest moves of the offseason.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

Of all the gods he was the shrewdest and most cunning; in fact he was the Master Thief, who started upon his career before he was a day old.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton