smarten

Example Sentences

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Could have the game for Australia, but needs to smarten up.

From BBC

"They can fix it," one Whitehall source says, but "they have to realise they have caused it and smarten up how they make decisions".

From BBC

And then, an off-handed comment from my math teacher: After a group of us — me included — failed to grasp a concept, he coldly told us, “You won’t even get into culinary school if you don’t smarten up.”

From Salon

“They’re just so good on the power play. So let’s just smarten up in that area.”

From Los Angeles Times

In Jay-Z’s song 2021 hit “U Don’t Know,” he raps, “That’s another difference that’s between me and them / Heh, I smarten up, open the market up / One million, two million, three million, four / In 18 months, 80 million more / Now add that number up with the one I said before”

From Los Angeles Times