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The movie is all premise, which is too clever by half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The Ford Expedition has modern tech, a big third row, clever features, and a muscular engine, adding up to make it our favorite full-size SUV.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

In the title of his 1997 bestselling adventure tale, “Into Thin Air,” mountaineer and writer Jon Krakauer employs a double entendre so clever that its effect is extraordinary.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

But it is a clever if knottily plotted police procedural and there are enough questions of substance—i.e. provocations of the sociopolitical variety—to keep one watching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Whoops, silly me, running off at the mouth! Of course she’s all right—there’s no one more brave and clever than our Lumawoo, is there, children? I’m sure she’s managing just fine.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

"And as AI progresses, the robots can be cleverer and cleverer."

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

“By combining the judgment of millions of people,” he writes, “the bond market is the world’s cleverest economist, its best political analyst, its most prescient corporate strategist, and its finest scientist.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

“Back to the Future” just might be Hollywood’s richest, cleverest blockbuster — and its attention to detail deserves to be re-celebrated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

They snap up the cleverest and most devious communicators to craft their messages, offering salaries no one else can afford.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

Yet these were not minor theories: one was held by the best philosophers of the later Middle Ages; the other by the cleverest Copernicans of the late sixteenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton