smart
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“People really want to talk to smart young people,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Attendees have to put their phones and other smart devices into a pouch, which can only be opened by a magnet after the event is over.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Meyer wrote the script a decade ago about her friendship with producer Maggie McLean, but no doubt she knows better than anyone how much the smart and sensible-projecting Stewart delights in acting the fool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
This signals a positive trend of planning and smart saving behavior, said Castellano.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Grandpa laughed and said, “Oh, I don’t think he’s that smart, is he? For the good of the country, I hope he isn’t. What happened anyway?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
She added: “It’s changed the way I interacted with the electoral process and made me smarter — I hope it does the same to you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But with science, medicine and smarter policies, we’re beginning to change the rules of the game.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Or there’s a smarter strategy that you make a deal. And they want to make a deal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
She says the newer version was an improvement, feeling "tight and secure" and looking smarter, "but, ultimately, it still wasn't designed to fit me".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
She and MacDuff are both smarter than I am.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Indexing is the easiest way to put the best judgment of the smartest people on Wall Street to work for you, at remarkably low cost.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Just because we have the smartest people developing AI does not mean we have the ability to do so safely."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
It is the leading destination for the world’s best players and its smartest coaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Rupert was the smartest guy in Hollywood — he got out at the top,” Reif Ehrlich said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Risky behavior mixed with exceptional smarts is a subject near and dear to Elm’s founder, Victor Haghani.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
He first impressed Sayre as a law clerk 20 years ago for his smarts and “because I spoke Spanish and he didn’t know many people of Middle Eastern heritage who did.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Winmill said his bets rely on smarts at the tops of companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
If Apple can run a Siri with Google’s Gemini smarts right on its Macs, iPhones and iPads, that could set the company on the right path toward AI success—with Ternus carrying the banner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Where he was getting these sudden smarts, I hadn’t the foggiest.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
"The media world is unrecognisable from the one he stepped into seventy years ago and the decision to scrap plans to reunite his empire must have smarted."
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2023
There was much speculation about his state of mind, whether the scars of the first defeat still smarted.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023
The result smarted: a 2-0 defeat before an announced 16,073.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
It must have smarted that he was the only one of the "I Love Lucy" four principals not nominated for an acting Emmy for the show.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
His classmates roared with laughter, but his forehead smarted.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
The fare will remain the LA-standard $1.75 -- a small victory for fans smarting at the $98 price tag for a round-trip train ticket between New York and MetLife Stadium.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Drake is smarting, and he spreads that hurt across more than an hour in the trilogy’s marquee album “Iceman.”
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
There had been an expectation that England would be smarting after the Calcutta Cup defeat, and would put it right against Ireland.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Derek Weeks started his search about six months ago, still smarting from last Christmas when he couldn’t secure a reindeer to go with his Santa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Still smarting from Freddy's kick, he pushed his way out of the bushes and limped home.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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