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The resurgence of totalizing ideologies among the young has a lot of smart people puzzled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Interviewed on the David Lin report podcast on Monday, Bianco acknowledges that “I’m not going to be smart enough to say 5.25% is the high but we’re getting close enough.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Taking regular meter readings, or having a smart meter, while paying by monthly direct debit solves that problem.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

As a marketing ploy, that’s smart, but it’s not entirely honest.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

When they delivered smart, entertaining speeches, it proved the supernatural influence of spirits.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“We have created an intelligent species that in many respects is already smarter than we are.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

There is no way to totally protect your self-esteem or your bank account, but you can make smarter choices about who you ask out by taking some preliminary steps before a date.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

“I am smarter than the entire DEA put together,” he allegedly said in another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Cramer has earned money from his secret-space-program tale, selling lessons on “how to make brains smarter, faster, more effective.”

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“But I’m glad we established that I’m smarter than you.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

He told the court Noah was "the most intelligent human being I have ever met", while Charlie said he was "the smartest kid, always asking questions".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

You could have the smartest people in the world and the best relationships inside that company, all of them working brilliantly on exactly the wrong problem.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Video creator Yotam Katzor, 32, worried about what would happen when humans were no longer the smartest thing on Earth.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Dodgers’ injury-scarred rotation needed a stud starting pitcher like Skubal and, as this column noted last month, there was no excuse for baseball’s wealthiest and smartest team not to grab him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

The selective breeding of the strongest, smartest, “fittest” humans—unnatural selection—Galton imagined, could achieve over just a few decades what nature had been attempting for eons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

New Zealand's smarts initially defused the fire and fury inside the cauldron, however.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The owners know they can’t legislate smarts into their contract, so they’re trying the next best thing — tying the hands of their own big spenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Winmill said his bets rely on smarts at the tops of companies.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Even Bodega with his street smarts and cunning lacked what Nazario had.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

"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

It smarted as well that Prince Mohammed seemed to get no credit for the kingdom’s social changes, nor for his own efforts to avert regional conflict, including starting talks with the Iranians in Baghdad.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

The result smarted: a 2-0 defeat before an announced 16,073.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022

His classmates roared with laughter, but his forehead smarted.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Hollywood’s workforce is already smarting, with job losses steepening after dual strikes by actors and writers three years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

Many 60/40 investors are still smarting from a terrible experience in 2022, when the funds’ slow-and-steady strategy appeared to backfire.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

It had started the cut to smarting again so when I went to wash I hung the vest on a chair and lowered the light cord so that the bulb would be drying the splotch.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner