smart
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Freebies for McHale’s April event included a private jet and a villa in St. Barts from Swan Beauty, a company that sells an AI smart mirror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Keep putting 3% to 5% of your income aside for your child’s future, as long as your good fortune and smart financial planning lasts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Where are the well-rounded characters, smart dialogue, ingenious scheming on one side and even more ingenious problem-solving on the other?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Andrew Robertson is a smart signing on and off the pitch, while Marcos Senesi is another good deal on a free transfer from Bournemouth.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Her answer made him a little nervous about just how smart she was getting to be.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
So while the Model Y is a better machine in many ways—stronger, lighter, smarter, more efficient—the question is, is it enough?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Zuckerberg noted that people fear automation will outpace individuals’ capability to get smarter and better at their jobs, leading to job displacement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Having taken the role on an interim basis during the Six Nations, Mitchell said that the coaching group is "smarter" with Scarratt's inclusion.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
That level of control could lead to faster, smarter, and more adaptable optical systems.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
I’ll put it to you like this: I’m about ten times smarter than everyone in Juvi.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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
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
“Dad’s the smartest man in the world!” said Willy.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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
Because the generative-AI smarts will just be there, through a “Hey Siri” or a swipe down from the top, Siri AI will open the door for anyone who hasn’t bothered to download ChatGPT or Claude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
While Borthwick has generally been wedded to speed and breakdown smarts in his back row, there is the option of adding some bosh.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
It’s essentially the difference between book smarts and street smarts.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
But Petey had smarter smarts than the smartest students at Fry High.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Asia stocks hit a 11-week low on Wednesday as renewed concerns about U.S. interest rates slugged Wall Street, while investors still smarted from dismal Chinese economic data and the absence of meaningful stimulus.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2023
There was much speculation about his state of mind, whether the scars of the first defeat still smarted.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023
Turks smarted at the sight of Russians casually snapping up products most local people would struggle to afford.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
The result smarted: a 2-0 defeat before an announced 16,073.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
He still smarted, more from Ellidyr’s words than from the drubbing; and he was hardly pleased that Eilonwy had seen him sprawled at the feet of the arrogant Prince.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Americans have been smarting for years over how much more expensive everything from coffee to cars has become.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
Earlier, Pep Guardiola's City went into their match against bottom side smarting after an embarrassing 3-1 Champions League defeat at Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
He is still smarting about the Dodgers’ response, adding “people are still talking about all of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
Malfoy was still smarting about the mud-throwing incident in Hogsmeade and was even more furious that Harry had somehow wormed his way out of punishment.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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