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smack

[smak] / smæk /






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Today you find guys talking smack just about everywhere, from locker rooms to barrooms to boardrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

“Backrooms” is a film only a 20-year-old — someone whose existence sits smack in-between decades of uniform past and the blip of a recent few years filled with massive change — could make.

From Salon May 30, 2026

Even if Fuqua had made the movie like a gritty documentary, just the entrance of Bubbles the chimp would smack of camp.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

But what’s extra notable about the sputtering tech partnerships of the 2020s is how baldly they smack of desperation.

From Slate Apr. 16, 2026

This didn’t sound like very fierce smack talk to Aru, but considering that it was coming from Mini, it was about as violent as it would get.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi




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