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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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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
Robot makers of any era would have loved to plug a canny, practical brain into robot bodies.
—David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
But with her craft, and sense of history, and air of normality, and maybe, sure, even some canny marketing, Lana Del Rey might be the perfect person to carry the torch and propel the past into tomorrow.
—Tim Molloy, SPIN, 21 June 2024
Other, cannier actors might learn from Prigozhin, melding his populism with a political program that has some purchase beyond mutinous mercenaries and that might attract a cadre within the Russian elite.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2023
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Adjective
Much has been made of distributor Neon’s canny choice to obscure the villain of Perkins’ latest film in all its marketing.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
Robot makers of any era would have loved to plug a canny, practical brain into robot bodies.
—David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
But with her craft, and sense of history, and air of normality, and maybe, sure, even some canny marketing, Lana Del Rey might be the perfect person to carry the torch and propel the past into tomorrow.
—Tim Molloy, SPIN, 21 June 2024
Other, cannier actors might learn from Prigozhin, melding his populism with a political program that has some purchase beyond mutinous mercenaries and that might attract a cadre within the Russian elite.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2023
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“Canny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canny. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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