smart
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When asked why he is supporting Talarico, Noel said: "He's a young man, he's an honest man, he's got a vision, he's smart, well-spoken, nice, kind, which is what we need."
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The truth is it’s a bit of both—a baseball team needs smart management and talent development, but having loads of money can make up for mistakes and increase the franchise’s margin for error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
If we follow their example, then maybe we’ll all get the best party ever, surrounded by glorious, smart, funny, talented and ready-to-rumble peers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg just made a really smart move regarding the proposed California billionaire tax.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Uh, no. Go wash your hands first, smart guy.”
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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“Voters are smarter than that. People in the coalition see these tactics and are tired of them too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Years later, I’ve become a more confident cook and, I think, a smarter host.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
But arriving at the future of autonomous robot helpers will require more data, smarter AI models and better hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Nintendo, he added, is "much smarter than many companies when it comes to re-releasing older games for a new audience".
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
She wasn’t much taller than I, but she was fifteen and of course she was smarter than I was.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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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
Superintelligence is the point at which AI will have surpassed even the smartest humans across several domains.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Hill added that Scott became known as “aloof” and wanting to be “the smartest person in the room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
Fortunately, as the smartest human computer out of all of us, Dorothy Vaughan had been thinking ahead.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
The Eliza effect may refer to an overattribution of human smarts to AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Winmill said his bets rely on smarts at the tops of companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
“You’re my oldest child, you got smarts enough to be somethin’ special like a teacher or a doctor one day.”
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
The result smarted: a 2-0 defeat before an announced 16,073.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
When such flourishes distressed Obama advisers, Mr. Biden — who had been his own boss for decades — smarted at having his political intuition questioned or overruled, former aides say.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
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
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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
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
Europe was - it still is - smarting at being sidelined.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
I press my fingers to my chest to massage some of the smarting tension away.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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