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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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Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Nice white parents enroll their children; protests break out when a bougie juice bar threatens to replace an old-school deli; and Principal Ava (Janelle James), always a canny operator, helps her team blackmail the developer out of some fancy new computers for the kids.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
That said, while his canny efforts to sidestep any potential controversies are understandable, the cautious version of Brady always seems weirdly at odds with the famously competitive Brady of old.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Still, his detractors praise him as a canny operator.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
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Analysts, including some close to the royal court, said a canny Saudi strategy to cultivate relations beyond the United States during the years of strain with the Biden administration had paid off in the U.S.-Russia talks on Tuesday.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Nice white parents enroll their children; protests break out when a bougie juice bar threatens to replace an old-school deli; and Principal Ava (Janelle James), always a canny operator, helps her team blackmail the developer out of some fancy new computers for the kids.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
That said, while his canny efforts to sidestep any potential controversies are understandable, the cautious version of Brady always seems weirdly at odds with the famously competitive Brady of old.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Still, his detractors praise him as a canny operator.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
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“Canny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canny. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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