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“But I think, as you look at the next couple of decades at Apple, AI will demand more clever software engineering and deep hardware integration. It’s time to have a product guy.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

With a free weekend, a relatively small budget and a few clever changes, even a bland or tired-looking place can be spruced-up.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Chase proves more clever in turning Maya’s harmless couch fort into a claustrophobic labyrinth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But it’s their journey and all the bizarre autocratic municipal rules they have to dance around that make “One Night Only” a clever, peculiar and head-scratching standout from the rom-com crowd.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Such a clever boy,” said the miller, adding sugar to his oily voice, but instead of sweet he sounded rancid.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

"People much cleverer than me will say that the wage bill follows the league position, but I can't think that way," said the Newcastle boss.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

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

"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

One argument against Neanderthal intelligence was the idea that they were capable of scavenging or hunting only large prey like elephants, while cleverer humans adopted a broader diet including fatty-acid-rich fish that promoted brain development.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

All the animals nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the Commandments by heart.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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

Another says Reeves "is normally the cleverest person in the room", and that she does not blag.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024

The cleverest element is found at the bottom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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

He and the other boys, the group he lived with, would be wrestling and joking, vying to be cleverest, or strongest, as they made their way together to or from the schoolhouse.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry