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cunning

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Japanese beer giant Asahi said Thursday it was not negotiating with the hackers behind a "sophisticated and cunning" ransomware attack that is about to enter its third month.

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And does Sunderland's cunning tactic of moving the advertising boards make a difference?

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“Wallachians were accustomed to give it as a surname to any person who rendered himself conspicuous either by courage, cruel actions, or cunning.”

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Archive technician Madalena Pena, 34, said the government was reversing labour rights "in an unfair, subtle, and cunning way, without having said anything before the election" in May.

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Chess was practically the Russian national sport, and Khrushchev relished the chess-like aspects of his job, the cunning calculation of moves and countermoves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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