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Addressing the matter on Wednesday, Hallgrimsson expressed gratitude for the support he has received while admitting "it was not clever" of him to generate headlines in the build-up to the Kosovo match.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

For those who are tired of such narratives, the appeal of the show will be in its interpretive stagecraft, which is impressive and clever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Don’t get lured into a clever, obscure get-rich-quick scheme sold to you by a plausible-sounding con artist.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Cruise avoids the personal by making his work inextricable from his life, thereby asking the reader to perform a clever thought exercise: What if Tom Cruise were telling the truth?

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Agreeably, the children groaned at his clever use of the word “haunts.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

But Isla understands, and we understand, that whatever she doesn’t know yet, she’s cleverer than the doubters give her credit for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

"Instead it did something even cleverer — it brought together existing genes, which already do other things in different parts of the plant, to make a complicated spot on the petals that deceives male flies."

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023

"They are learning, they are getting cleverer, and it really freaks me out," says Dwarf.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2023

“If I’d been a bit cleverer, I’d have told everyone what you are!”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

One night, the five decide to bestow their honorific on Ticky, whom they consider “the cleverest of us all because you can tell the exact time without looking at a clock.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Sir Tom Stoppard was one of Britain's cleverest playwrights.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

The cleverest mystery is no better than its characters and, when it’s made for the screen, the actors who play them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

They snap up the cleverest and most devious communicators to craft their messages, offering salaries no one else can afford.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

“I hate to beat Kurtsinger,” Woolf said, “the cleverest jockey I ever competed against.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand