shrewd
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Exactly a year since he unveiled his first collection at Chanel, Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy has proved himself to be a shrewd and hugely profitable recruit by the family-owned French fashion label.
From Barron's β Oct. 4, 2026
Californian Fred Karger, who made history in 2012 as the first openly gay person to run for president, had mixed views about the ad, calling it shrewd yet hypocritical.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 3, 2026
As the world remembers Parton, one of our top stories today looks at how her business instincts made her a shrewd operator in the notoriously opaque music industry.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 29, 2026
John Murray: This looks a potentially shrewd signing for newly promoted Coventry City, even though they have just paid a club record transfer fee of about £25m to sign him from Danish side FC Nordsjaelland.
From BBC β Aug. 18, 2026
Chief looked at him, a long, shrewd look.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One of their shrewder tactics is to begin the story as an odd-couple courtship as Ernest, a war veteran, ingratiates himself with the wealthy, wary Mollie.
From Los Angeles Times β May 20, 2023
Beneath the malapropisms and the circumlocutions, though, Palin turned out to have a shrewder feel for Republican voters than those in the press who scorned her, and who underestimated him.
From New York Times β Apr. 4, 2022
But Stacey Abrams is one of the shrewder Democratic politicians.
From Slate β Dec. 2, 2021
She proved stronger and shrewder than more experienced rivals, coming through to win in one minute 57.98 seconds.
From BBC β Sep. 9, 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 β 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 β Apr. 11, 2026
Klein Halevi is one of the shrewdest and most thoughtful analysts of Israeli politics and society.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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 β Jan. 5, 2026
Of all the gods he was the shrewdest and most cunning; in fact he was the Master Thief, who started upon his career before he was a day old.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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