shrewd

Greengrass surrounds Garfield with actors who deliver bigger performances, like Jarvis as the brutish but shrewd Tyler, and Bell as the fervent Ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Simplicity, studies, shrewd promotion by its inventor—and a demonstration on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson—made the Heimlich maneuver a go-to method.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Parton was a successful and shrewd businesswoman, and in 2022 was listed by Forbes as one of America's richest self-made women, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

In the shrewd balance of his alliance with Moscow and Beijing, he has no need to make any sort of deals with Washington.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

In the twilight the memory of him was very sharp, the soft pink skin aging on his fine cheekbones, the thin aristocratic nose, the eyes, so shrewd and yet so loving.

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

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

“Someone Else’s House,” produced by Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, is an altogether shorter, tauter and shrewder work.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2021

Since leaving the warren of the snares they had become warier, shrewder, a tenacious band who understood each other and worked together.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Tinubu is considered one of Nigeria's shrewdest politicians and his All Progressives Congress controls the national assembly and 31 of 36 powerful governorships.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Critical to the publicity’s success was Howard’s shrewdest decision.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand