clever
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Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck explain why this absurd-sounding venture is actually a pretty clever piece of financial engineering.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
"The second and the most ongoing challenge is dry rot in the building," he added: "It's so clever, and it gets everywhere."
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“Those kids had to be really clever to get one over on eagle-eyed Lois,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
‘Still, we are more clever than our youngest brother,’ they said.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing clever
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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