smarten
Example Sentences
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"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 ● Jul. 2, 2025
“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
Next, smarten the grid by updating technology to increase the network’s flexibility and responsiveness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
It’s also a self-protective reflex in the workplace: there’s vindication in seeing a boss who’s always telling others to smarten up wearing her sweater inside-out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
Maybe when he got to be ten, like me, he’d smarten up.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
