smart
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“People really want to talk to smart young people,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It's a way of showing how smart you are," said Rob Lalka, a business professor at Tulane University.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meyer wrote the script a decade ago about her friendship with producer Maggie McLean, but no doubt she knows better than anyone how much the smart and sensible-projecting Stewart delights in acting the fool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
This signals a positive trend of planning and smart saving behavior, said Castellano.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
When they delivered smart, entertaining speeches, it proved the supernatural influence of spirits.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
She added: “It’s changed the way I interacted with the electoral process and made me smarter — I hope it does the same to you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It was able to crack the unit-distance problem not just because it might be smarter than humans, but also because it can think coherently for much longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
That level of control could lead to faster, smarter, and more adaptable optical systems.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
She says the newer version was an improvement, feeling "tight and secure" and looking smarter, "but, ultimately, it still wasn't designed to fit me".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“If perfection were possible, which type would reign? Moral perfection? Mental perfection? Would the smarter man win, or the stronger? The dark-skinned or light-skinned? Would the winner be the most beautiful?”
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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
‘Indexing is the easiest way to put the best judgment of the smartest people on Wall Street to work for you, at remarkably low cost.’
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
So if James wanted to spend his twilight chasing an elusive fifth championship, the single smartest thing he could do was take a pay cut to join a ready-made contender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“I don’t care what he looks like, Grandpa,” I said, “that’s Jimbo; and he’s the smartest thing you’ve ever seen in your life.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
Common sense, street smarts, the ability to communicate with people and have people respect you and like you and want to work with you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
If the player payroll is just about the same for every team, then success would depend in large part on the smarts of ownership and management.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
But Petey had smarter smarts than the smartest students at Fry High.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
It must have smarted that he was the only one of the "I Love Lucy" four principals not nominated for an acting Emmy for the show.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
My nose was tender and smarted when I touched it.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
The fare will remain the LA-standard $1.75 -- a small victory for fans smarting at the $98 price tag for a round-trip train ticket between New York and MetLife Stadium.
From Barron's ● May 27, 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
It clearly left him smarting and he's not had a good word to say about wind power since.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
It helped that his father hated Chandler, still smarting from a row years before.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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