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Steven Beltran, a California resident who frequently used Meta’s smart glasses, alleges that the gadget would “falsely activate twice a day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Some workers in Kenya who reviewed images captured on smart glasses told the news outlet that faces sometimes appeared even when they were supposed to be blurred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“We’ll do anything that helps the price at home, but we’re also going to be smart about how we do that,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“When college is touted as a ticket to a certain lifestyle,” she writes, “it seems smart to agree to almost any price tag and any amount of debt.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Claire was smart, she had friends, and she was going to find some way, I knew, to get back at me for scaring her and her brother.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

For the immediate problem — an MRI I need, with my insurance coverage in limbo — is there a smarter move than either paying cash or waiting for an insurer?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026

Two employees from Anthropic's safety team have resigned in the last two weeks, external saying humanity may not survive the race among AI companies to develop machines that are smarter than humans.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Maybe someone smarter or more charismatic than Erika Kirk would have been able to navigate these contradictions.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

“They really have to be desperate and hungry because, I hate to say it, but they’re smarter than humans,” Navratil says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Someone much smarter, more sophisticated, I imagine. A social butterfly, she said.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

You could have the smartest people in the world and the best relationships inside that company, all of them working brilliantly on exactly the wrong problem.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Video creator Yotam Katzor, 32, worried about what would happen when humans were no longer the smartest thing on Earth.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

"He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams," Dolly wrote.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Dodgers’ injury-scarred rotation needed a stud starting pitcher like Skubal and, as this column noted last month, there was no excuse for baseball’s wealthiest and smartest team not to grab him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

She reminded them of all the pranks Tommy had played on them, of all the sterling qualities of the smartest student in their class, of why a girl, not a boy, should represent them.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

New Zealand's smarts initially defused the fire and fury inside the cauldron, however.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Americans are abandoning the belief that smarts and effort are the best ways to get ahead in life, according to new research, underscoring the pessimism many people have about their chances at financial success.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The owners know they can’t legislate smarts into their contract, so they’re trying the next best thing — tying the hands of their own big spenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

If Apple can run a Siri with Google’s Gemini smarts right on its Macs, iPhones and iPads, that could set the company on the right path toward AI success—with Ternus carrying the banner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Where he was getting these sudden smarts, I hadn’t the foggiest.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

"The media world is unrecognisable from the one he stepped into seventy years ago and the decision to scrap plans to reunite his empire must have smarted."

From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2023

There was much speculation about his state of mind, whether the scars of the first defeat still smarted.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023

Turks smarted at the sight of Russians casually snapping up products most local people would struggle to afford.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

It must have smarted that he was the only one of the "I Love Lucy" four principals not nominated for an acting Emmy for the show.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022

As she walked along the rising road that bordered the sea, Lupita’s eyes smarted from the sharp brightness of the blue water and the white surf curling onto the beach many feet below.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

But many businesses—some still smarting from being late to the AI boom—are spending big on the technology today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Drake is smarting, and he spreads that hurt across more than an hour in the trilogy’s marquee album “Iceman.”

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

Many 60/40 investors are still smarting from a terrible experience in 2022, when the funds’ slow-and-steady strategy appeared to backfire.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

Americans are still smarting from a surge of food prices in the wake of the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

Still smarting from Freddy's kick, he pushed his way out of the bushes and limped home.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville