shrewd
Example Sentences
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When we see performances like this, especially in movies where we might not anticipate them, it’s a shrewd reminder that we can never be too sure what we’ll get when we go to the theater.
From Salon
Klein Halevi is one of the shrewdest and most thoughtful analysts of Israeli politics and society.
While he also played a shrewd game, unlike Rachel he struggled to keep a calm demeanour, regularly going viral for his shocked facial expressions and sweaty, red-faced looks that showed his stress levels.
From BBC
But he was also a vivid writer, a shrewd judge of men with a novelist’s eye for detail, and a man with a rare willingness to alter his opinions when facts intervened.
Other analysts, meanwhile, say that while the Dodgers are benefiting from shrewd management, the growing sense of a financial imbalance within baseball needs to be addressed.
From Barron's
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