smarts

Example Sentences

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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

It’s essentially the difference between book smarts and street smarts.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

In June, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, told us the company is rebuilding Siri on a new underlying architecture to improve its AI smarts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

“Luck or smarts, I don’t care, long as I’m not dead.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi