savvy
Frequently Asked Questions
- Our users are savvy—they know how it should work and they’ll certainly let us know when it doesn’t.
- It was a savvy decision that demonstrated her depth of experience.
- He had no business savvy at all—he lost money on every deal he ever made.
- I knew he’d be great at game design since he’s always been so tech-savvy.
Example Sentences
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"Young people are much more vulnerable to it than older people even though they tend to be pretty savvy with technology," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Despite their unorthodox belief system, some more contemporary examples, such as Scientology, are savvy in deploying the religious protections offered by the Constitution to secure legal and financial benefits.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Greenspan was an enigma: a savvy political operator and ladies’ man who was also an introvert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Is a career like his — a famous executive driven by their own taste and individual savvy — even possible today?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
What they want and the prize it is his to give is his savvy self.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
But the market may be growing savvier about distinguishing between companies at risk of disruption and those set to benefit from AI.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
If a bill would be painful but manageable, paying out of pocket may be the savvier move in the long run.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
Tenev and Bhatt had built the company for the first-time investor, but had attracted many savvier, highly active traders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
In other cases, regarding HSAs specifically, people are using the money in a much savvier way.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2025
Relieved that I didn’t have to worry about him, I followed Sabrina and Daphne, another girl from Lykes Cottage who was a year older than I was and who seemed savvier than Sabrina.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Even the savviest, most battle-tested investors may fear missing out.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
And the savviest Americans take advantage of all three.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
It’s no wonder that some of the savviest teams in the league understood it was worth shelling out for a good one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
That challenge is growing, even for the savviest of us.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
Enter the NFL RedZone channel, one of the savviest things anyone’s ever put on TV.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
This fine example is plush and ripe, with plenty of nectarine and citrus flavors but without the aggressive grassiness of some New Zealand savvies.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
Them guns," said Dave, "pretty near shoot themselves if a feller savvies a gun at all.
From The Land of Strong Men by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)
"When he gets the thing figured out, in six months or a year, and savvies it was a put-up job from the start, somebody'll have it coming."
From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by Bower, B. M.
There's one man up there savvies downhill shootin'.
From The Land of Strong Men by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)
I says to myself: 'Jo's been on the grade all her life and savvies conditions.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston
Then he ordered out a lot of stock papers, an' the first thing we knew, we was askin' him questions about things 'at we'd allus supposed we savvied from tail to muzzle.
From Happy Hawkins by Wason, Robert Alexander
"I haven't savvied the code out well enough yet to read this one."
From El Diablo by Groesbeck, Dan Sayre
"All ther same, ther Second should have savvied enough not to have slung you hoff ther look-hout."
From The Ghost Pirates by Hodgson, William Hope
I tried out three prominent citizens before I found one who savvied English.
From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell
Oh, don't be an ingenue; you savvied more than anybody on the job.
From The Iron Trail by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
And Johnnie he cruises over to China, and the old fellow, savvying how things are, says all right, marry, and they get married, and he gives 'em his blessing and lays down and dies.
From Sonnie-Boy's People by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
For savvying everything, there's nobody going to give him the go-by!
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater
Well, there's time for a chin before the choo-choo starts—thought I'd be early, not savvying this kind of travelling a great deal.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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