canny
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It will take more than stolen KitKats and canny marketing to turn the company around.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Her versatility - she was threatening with the new ball and canny at the death - will be crucial at the World Cup.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
But that art, Serrano says, was created by Monroe, with equal parts natural magnetism and a canny, rigorous sense of her own strengths.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Griffin even made for himself an industry town called Frostproof—a canny, if defiant, advertising play, named years prior, after the town had survived the mythic 1895 freeze without much issue.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
But he was also canny enough to know when to let up on the crew, when to flatter them, when to implore them, when to joke around with them.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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