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- adjective
comparative form ofwily : morewily
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Examples
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She thinks it's a solitary deer mouse, which she described as the wilier cousin of the house mouse.
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She thinks it's a solitary deer mouse, which she described as the wilier cousin of the house mouse.
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Dimas thought he could never be caught—until he encountered someone wilier than him.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Dimas thought he could never be caught—until he encountered someone wilier than him.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Barney the New Caledonian crow appears to be a wilier bird than even the scientists used to his resourcefulness may have realised.
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Dimas thought he could never be caught—until he encountered someone wilier than him.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Only this time he was wilier and a whole lot stronger.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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CML cells, Sawyers discovered, become Gleevec-resistant through an even wilier mechanism: the cells acquire mutations that specifically alter the structure of Bcr-abl, creating a protein still able to drive the growth of the leukemia but no longer capable of binding to the drug.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Only this time he was wilier and a whole lot stronger.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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But Mr. Thaksin has proved a wilier adversary than Thailand's generals anticipated.
Once-Stable Thailand Appears Closer Than Ever to Unraveling 2010
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