smarten up
Example Sentences
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“They’re just so good on the power play. So let’s just smarten up in that area.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
“I would like to see people smarten up so that we don’t have to have a mandate in the first place,” she said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
This will not only smarten up the tree but, more importantly, also leave a small, clean wound that will heal more quickly.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
More than that, like the platforms, the media needs to smarten up about ways that extremists successfully manipulate the media into writing about them.
From The Verge ● Sep. 18, 2018
Pretty soon they smarten up, and Blade says, "Smaller rocks! Get me smaller rocks!" and I know in my heart we're doomed.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
