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- adjective
comparative form ofcanny : morecanny
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Examples
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The platter of urban blight made you warier, cannier, pointier, angrier... more entertaining.
Peter Mehlman: 80's New York Peter Mehlman 2011
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The middle classes are on the rise in many other parts of the world, and are on the whole cannier, better educated, less fat, and far, far less complacent and indebted than we are.
Jackson Hole, Wyo. 2009
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It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation.
Danny Groner: What Does Juan Williams' Firing Say About Journalism? Danny Groner 2010
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The platter of urban blight made you warier, cannier, pointier, angrier... more entertaining.
Peter Mehlman: 80's New York Peter Mehlman 2011
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The cannier ones realise that, if they create work that exists in many spheres and on different platforms, their work will not just continue to exist but continue to grow and spread, long after the curtain has fallen.
The best theatre companies play many parts Lyn Gardner 2010
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It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation.
Danny Groner: What Does Juan Williams' Firing Say About Journalism? Danny Groner 2010
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You don't have to make an elaborate set in order for them to work, but they aren't effective on the cannier animals.
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You don't have to make an elaborate set in order for them to work, but they aren't effective on the cannier animals.
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But accurately appraising remote and undeveloped lands can be a tricky business, and Mr. Chapman has sometimes proved a cannier judge of value than the federal government.
'The Buzzard of Backcountry' Strikes It Rich in National Parks Stephanie Simon 2010
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The middle classes are on the rise in many other parts of the world, and are on the whole cannier, better educated, less fat, and far, far less complacent and indebted than we are.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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