Example Sentences

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“I had respect for her smarts or canniness and practicality,” Tillman writes, in an attempt to give her mother her due.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022

But analysts also say Kainerugaba lacks his father's political canniness.

From Reuters • May 19, 2022

How that canniness expresses itself may have little to do with what’s literally on the page.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2022

She’s a wonderful mix of decent values and applied canniness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020

The old hound had the canniness of a wolf.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George