cleverer
- comparative of clever.
Example Sentences
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But Isla understands, and we understand, that whatever she doesn’t know yet, she’s cleverer than the doubters give her credit for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
"Is there someone cleverer in Wales?" came the retort.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
"Instead it did something even cleverer — it brought together existing genes, which already do other things in different parts of the plant, to make a complicated spot on the petals that deceives male flies."
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023
“If I’d been a bit cleverer, I’d have told everyone what you are!”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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