clever
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In a clip on his personal TikTok, Burnham, thanks to clever editing, appears to toss up a mortarboard hat and catch a builder's helmet, as he promotes technical education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Prosecuting, Gordon Menzies said: "It's reasonably practicable for clever people to do a simple thing and design a window that doesn't fall out once every year."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
He’s got a super-soaker “Goonies”-meets-early-Peter Jackson mindset and a list of clever kills to execute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Muriel Spark took a break from writing novels to dream up a whimsical tale of a clever timepiece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“He says we can see him tomorrow. Ah! That’s a clever device.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
"Is there someone cleverer in Wales?" came the retort.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
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
“Who could say what sorts of patterns might give away users who thought they were cleverer than those watching them?”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
They might be cleverer than she was, or more sophisticated, and they were sure to know a lot more than she did about all the things that were important to girls of their age.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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
A self-described “millennial comedian,” Morrison doesn’t strike me as the cleverest crafter of jokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
As fantastical as “Doctor Who” can get, the cleverest being in the universe always has an explanation for everything.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023
I’m still around, but from here on in, for reasons I’m not at liberty to disclose, I’ve disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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