smart
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Cude added that a smart way that individual investors can harness AI is to ask it, “What questions should I ask a financial adviser?”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The resulting album, titled Music, Fashion, Film, is smart, self-referential, funny, antagonistic and crammed full of moments to stimulate your inner earworm.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Can Mr. Vance possibly think this is smart?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
During the World Cup, I was able to upgrade the AC unit, added a smart thermostat and invested in landscaping, which we want to do more of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
They can arrive wrapped in the language of progress—faster, smarter, more efficient—until one day we realize that what has arrived isn’t what we wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Think you’re smarter about finances than the average U.S. adult?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Such devices could be used in smarter infrared sensors, more efficient energy systems, and new types of photonic memory that store information using light and heat instead of electrical charges."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
“We talk down to people. We talk past people. They think we just think we’re smarter than other people, that we’re so judgmental and full of ourselves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Tell me the truth. Do you think I’m smarter or dumber than Hanako?”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
"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
"If you're the smartest person in the room, you need to leave and find another room where you'll feel like an amateur," she added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
If I do decide to make a change, what’s the smartest way to approach a career shift like this?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Many of the smartest people in the world warned governments, companies and people Monday that they need to be ready for the deep impact that artificial intelligence is going to have on the economy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
In her unshakable opinion, he was the smartest and most attractive man she had ever met—and she made sure he knew that.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
The next big test will be when Siri gets new smarts later this year, due in part to a collaboration with Google that Apple announced in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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
Street smarts may hold the upper hand for now.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
“Luck or smarts, I don’t care, long as I’m not dead.”
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"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
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
After a bit, he went slowly back and lay down again beside the fire, staring into its red heart until his eyes smarted.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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
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
Derek Weeks started his search about six months ago, still smarting from last Christmas when he couldn’t secure a reindeer to go with his Santa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Americans are still smarting from a surge of food prices in the wake of the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
Colonel Cathcart was stung by the blunt rebuke and skulked guiltily about his room in smarting repudiation.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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