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[smahrt] / smɑrt /






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Apple also announced updated versions of its entry-level AirPods and smart watches, the latter of which will have improved heart-rate sensors that can be paired with an updated Health app launching later this year.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

“He’s super smart and understands the sports ecosystem,” says Ilana Kloss, a longtime sports executive and business partner of Billie Jean King, who is not involved in the talks.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Once they moved in, they were confronted with the challenge of living in an old house with high-tech amenities, like smart home technology controlled by an app, or how to open the entry gate.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

In recent years, they have become smart enough to earn a silver medal and then gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

I’ve never broken a quadruple promise before, but one hour into our first job and I’m questioning why I thought caring for three children was a smart idea.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Maybe someone smarter or more charismatic than Erika Kirk would have been able to navigate these contradictions.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

But the danger is it’ll pass that point and become smarter than we are.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Maryland hasn’t said if it will appeal, but it might be smarter to cut its losses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 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

Brokk’s brother, Eitri, was the great craftsman, but Brokk was the smarter of the two, and the more determined.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Not long ago, the smartest models struggled with basic math.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

It is the size of a pin head – yet in many ways - more efficient than a supercomputer and able to outsmart the smartest AI.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Making it seem as though there is no way that the former governor of California could do this because not even the smartest professor at Yale Law School can do this.

From Slate Aug. 10, 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

She was the smartest of the seven, the one with the answers.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Resident birds show more smarts than migratory ones, and city birds are sharper than their country brethren.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 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

The seven bucks he took off me still smarts, even though we’re friendly now.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

My hands were already blistering, I could tell; they smarted when I repositioned them on the oars.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2016

Cora sat in the front of the class nowadays, and when Georgina corrected her—on her penmanship or arithmetic or speech—she no longer smarted.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

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

England, without a Six Nations title since 2020, will now face a Scotland side smarting from an 18-15 opening loss to Italy in Rome.

From Barron's Feb. 7, 2026

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




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