smartest
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Your job isn’t to be the smartest person in the building.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Not even the industry’s smartest minds saw the Brewers coming.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
In the Journal interview, Stanat said Deng was “a tech bro with no education experience whatsoever, but nonetheless certain that he’s the smartest guy in the room.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
His teammates, however, backed him without hesitation, saying he was one of the smartest players in baseball and made the game look easy through hard work.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
If he wasn’t the smartest kid in the universe, he might not be able to figure out an alternate escape route.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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