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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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Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2024
Anthropic’s Claude had that very morning given me canny insight into a personal matter.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
Against that backdrop, Harris’s first economic promise—exempting tips from taxation—was canny.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
The book is filled with humor, canny allusion, beauty, and a profundity born of glimpsing fleeting human lives from the outside—through eyes that have seen epochs yet nonetheless remain befuddled.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
The app seems cannier than other platforms in funneling comedy videos to receptive viewers.
—Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2024
Anthropic’s Claude had that very morning given me canny insight into a personal matter.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
Against that backdrop, Harris’s first economic promise—exempting tips from taxation—was canny.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
The book is filled with humor, canny allusion, beauty, and a profundity born of glimpsing fleeting human lives from the outside—through eyes that have seen epochs yet nonetheless remain befuddled.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Canny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canny. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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