shrewd
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She was also a shrewd operator in the notoriously opaque music industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Her aesthetics were deliberately cultivated, another calculated move from a shrewd entrepreneur who understood showbusiness as well as she understood people.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
It’s something which says so much about him and the way he does it, I thought it was an incredibly beautiful and shrewd piece of writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the shrewd balance of his alliance with Moscow and Beijing, he has no need to make any sort of deals with Washington.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
He was the Machiavelli of Ohio politics, the classic behind-the-scenes fixer, a shrewd and insightful judge of character or, at least, political opportunity.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Fancied to feature by some of the shrewder racing pundits.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2022
One of Farhadi’s shrewder insights here is that institutions, perhaps even more than individuals, have a real stake in turning inspirational stories to their financial and reputational advantage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
In shrewder hands, this could read as a critique of the tourist-board shilling of certain movies.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
Someone shrewder could have made better use of its marriage of history and blockbuster cinema to comment on our addiction to violent, explosive versions of American mythmaking.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2021
Since leaving the warren of the snares they had become warier, shrewder, a tenacious band who understood each other and worked together.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Tinubu is considered one of Nigeria's shrewdest politicians and his All Progressives Congress controls the national assembly and 31 of 36 powerful governorships.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
That’s the hypothesis of one of the world’s shrewdest and most respected analysts of geopolitics and energy, Cambridge University political economy professor Helen Thompson.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026
Klein Halevi is one of the shrewdest and most thoughtful analysts of Israeli politics and society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Ashworth's glittering reputation as one of the game's shrewdest operators meant he was regarded as a prized, crucial acquisition but left in December 2024 after only five months at Old Trafford.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
His favorite companion on these tours was Mercury, the most entertaining of all the gods, the shrewdest and the most resourceful.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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