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Adjective
a canny card player, good at psyching out his opponents
warm and canny under the woolen bedcovers, we didn't mind the chilly Scottish nights
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Fabio Bertoni, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
The canny Pahani and his team were, however, prepared.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
And with a few canny pointers on how LLMs work and how to effectively structure prompts, AI can actually aid us in verifying posts on social media and offer missing context.
—Nadav Ziv, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
But then, after the heist, Reichardt finds canny ways to insert a sense of the wider world, one Mooney ignores at his peril and, eventually, catches up to him.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The Administration has also been extremely canny in going after institutions rather than individuals.
—Fabio Bertoni, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
The canny Pahani and his team were, however, prepared.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
And with a few canny pointers on how LLMs work and how to effectively structure prompts, AI can actually aid us in verifying posts on social media and offer missing context.
—Nadav Ziv, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
But then, after the heist, Reichardt finds canny ways to insert a sense of the wider world, one Mooney ignores at his peril and, eventually, catches up to him.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Canny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canny. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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