clever
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This detour is not a clever design, but a historical leftover from our fish-like ancestors when the nerve took a straightforward path around the gill arches.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
That was in part because UniCredit used clever financial bets tied to Commerzbank stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The dark comedy about a New England island beset by supernatural terrors is both exceedingly clever and genuinely terrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
When free agency opens Tuesday, Pelinka is just going to have to show us how creative he can be, how clever and cunning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
In books, their problems were solved in a clever thirty-two pages.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
When asked 'are you worried that Chris Sutton is cleverer than you?'
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
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
If Kaltain wanted Dorian’s hand, then she’d need to be far, far cleverer.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Mack Hansen - bubbly, busy and intelligent - and Lowe - one of the most influential and cleverest wings in world rugby.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
She’s costumed like a clown, but her screenplay is as confident as an antihero’s cleverest heist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
As fantastical as “Doctor Who” can get, the cleverest being in the universe always has an explanation for everything.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023
Leave it to Hollywood’s writers, now striking, to have the cleverest signs: “HBO Max Pays HBO Minimum,” reads one.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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