smart set
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She added that the department has "made a smart set of decisions but it is part of an overall package".
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
Days earlier, Condé Nast folded Pitchfork, once a kingmaker among music’s smart set, into GQ magazine and laid off employees, including the editor in chief.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
But this pathetic desire to be seen as part of the "smart" set makes it pretty easy to scam the elite right.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2023
The larger-than-life 70-year-old is an Oxford graduate, was part of London's smart set in the late 1970s and later led cricket-mad Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup.
From Reuters • May 22, 2023
Not the so-called smart set, you understand; but the real ruling set—the leading soldiers, the leading diplomats.
From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
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