cleverest
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Elaine said David "was the cleverest, funniest, loving person"
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
Sir Tom Stoppard was one of Britain's cleverest playwrights.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Ally and Jay’s rom-com caricature is the cleverest subplot in the movie — the pair are heightened Hallmark Channel ingenues who like fiddly coffee orders, coordinated plaids and the same shade of taupe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
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
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