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- adjective
comparative form ofshrewd : moreshrewd
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Examples
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Not cheerlessly, more and more faintly, her thread of life ran to pause, resembling a rill of the drought; and the thinner-it grew, the shrewder were her murmurs for
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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Not cheerlessly, more and more faintly, her thread of life ran to pause, resembling a rill of the drought; and the thinner-it grew, the shrewder were her murmurs for
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Not cheerlessly, more and more faintly, her thread of life ran to pause, resembling a rill of the drought; and the thinner-it grew, the shrewder were her murmurs for
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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For example, Gartner (news, site) Managing Vice President Vic Wheatman made one of the key-note contributions in which he urged IT managers to take a "shrewder" look at their security spending and instead of cutting back, which many have been forced to do for economic considerations, look at what they are spending budgets on.
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If it seeks to alter this equation and exert an impact where it matters most, WikiLeaks should become shrewder about what documents it releases and the actual proportion of such releases.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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If it seeks to alter this equation and exert an impact where it matters most, WikiLeaks should become shrewder about what documents it releases and the actual proportion of such releases.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban felt otherwise.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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If it seeks to alter this equation and exert an impact where it matters most, WikiLeaks should become shrewder about what documents it releases and the actual proportion of such releases.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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If it seeks to alter this equation and exert an impact where it matters most, WikiLeaks should become shrewder about what documents it releases and the actual proportion of such releases.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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If it seeks to alter this equation and exert an impact where it matters most, WikiLeaks should become shrewder about what documents it releases and the actual proportion of such releases.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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