shrewdness

Example Sentences

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Anthropic’s business prospects—and the shrewdness of its main investors, Amazon and Google—may be more deserving of notice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Napoleon ascends through shrewdness and dumb luck, taking advantage of anti-royalist sentiment one minute and crowning himself emperor the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

One welcome shift from past cinematic renderings is screenwriters Peres Owino's and NneNne Iwuji's emphasis on Cleopatra's shrewdness as a political and military strategist, traits often subsumed by her legend as a seductress.

From Salon • May 11, 2023

Despite his cricketing shrewdness, he was ruled out of captaincy discussions by administrators in 2000 following too many embarrassing headlines about personal behaviour.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2022

Yanna, who did not seem much older than Pinmei, nodded with the shrewdness of an adult.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin