clever
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Though clever with nature apps, the Global Positioning System and sourcing from social media, she’s often reminded that wild creatures don’t keep precise appointments with time and place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Viking face Bayern, Atletico, Napoli and Aston Villa, but Norwegian football is full of clever, competitive coaches, players and teams.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The firm sees GPT-6, also known as Astra, as a crucial part of a decade-long push towards artificial general intelligence -- tools as clever as humans.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Just … the best,” said Jim Harbaugh, pausing to search for a characteristically clever way to describe James and coming up with just this: “Yeah, he’s just the best.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
She was clever with her words, and we tossed the rhymes back and forth.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
"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
“Who could say what sorts of patterns might give away users who thought they were cleverer than those watching them?”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
He talked often of how he could not go to university because he had to find a job to support his siblings, and how people he was cleverer than in secondary school now had doctorates.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Roy Hattersley, who has died at the age of 93, was one of Labour's cleverest and most articulate post war politicians.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The cleverest mystery is no better than its characters and, when it’s made for the screen, the actors who play them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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
He grins from ear to ear, as if he just said the cleverest thing.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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