shrewd
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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
“It’s this shrewd way that they’re protecting their information and eluding public oversight,” Shapiro said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Odysseus is also a supremely shrewd hero, the “master of craft and battle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Ronaldo looked unhappy as he walked off but it proved a shrewd move as substitute Goncalo Ramos, seen as a natural replacement for Ronaldo, sent Portugal through in a chaotic finish.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
Beneath the malapropisms and the circumlocutions, though, Palin turned out to have a shrewder feel for Republican voters than those in the press who scorned her, and who underestimated him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
But Stacey Abrams is one of the shrewder Democratic politicians.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2021
She proved stronger and shrewder than more experienced rivals, coming through to win in one minute 57.98 seconds.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021
It looked to him they were shrewder guessers than their elders who were trying to believe that not a shot had been, or would be, fired.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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
His favorite companion on these tours was Mercury, the most entertaining of all the gods, the shrewdest and the most resourceful.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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