cleverness
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The fights and chases are semi-effective, but there’s such a startling lack of cleverness that it’s as if the filmmakers took “Idiocracy” as a guide rather than a warning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
The cleverness of the execution is as or more important than how seamless it is.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025
While he is nowhere near the dribbler Jeremy Doku or Savinho is, he brings a certain degree of cleverness to the wing.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
So she does the first thing that clues us in to the cleverness of the enterprise.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024
He recited the virtues of Arm and described the fantastic cleverness of all three.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing cleverness
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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