smart
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That’s especially true for small-market clubs, who have determined that allocating a large portion of their payroll to someone who will throw 65 innings all season isn’t necessarily a smart use of their budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
PA Consulting's Stone agrees, though, that new paper sealing technologies are "a smart place to start".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The newly discovered buoyancy system could also contribute to efforts to develop smart materials made with resilin.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
On it, smart cameras installed around his home relayed images of his house, now under clear blue skies, with the hosepipe in the yard unravelled where he left it.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I think I’ve read where monkeys can be pretty smart; especially, if they’ve been trained.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
And they’ve gotten smarter than the used-gum, spit-cup abstinence proponents of my youth.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
The U.S. needs a smarter, more flexible grid that can adapt in real time, making better use of existing infrastructure to respond to rapidly changing conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Think you’re smarter about finances than the average U.S. adult?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Such devices could be used in smarter infrared sensors, more efficient energy systems, and new types of photonic memory that store information using light and heat instead of electrical charges."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn’t know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
"Just because we have the smartest people developing AI does not mean we have the ability to do so safely."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
If I do decide to make a change, what’s the smartest way to approach a career shift like this?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Many of the smartest people in the world warned governments, companies and people Monday that they need to be ready for the deep impact that artificial intelligence is going to have on the economy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Mr. O’Connor’s Daniel has a strange affinity with otherworldly contact and a facility for outsmarting the smartest people in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
My mother is the smartest person I know.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Because the generative-AI smarts will just be there, through a “Hey Siri” or a swipe down from the top, Siri AI will open the door for anyone who hasn’t bothered to download ChatGPT or Claude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Resident birds show more smarts than migratory ones, and city birds are sharper than their country brethren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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
Admired as a pathbreaker, Elizebeth is now regarded as a role model—a woman who excelled in a technical field through her courage, smarts, and grit.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Asia stocks hit a 11-week low on Wednesday as renewed concerns about U.S. interest rates slugged Wall Street, while investors still smarted from dismal Chinese economic data and the absence of meaningful stimulus.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2023
There was much speculation about his state of mind, whether the scars of the first defeat still smarted.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023
When such flourishes distressed Obama advisers, Mr. Biden — who had been his own boss for decades — smarted at having his political intuition questioned or overruled, former aides say.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
“The decision still smarted a little, but it was the right one,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2019
After a bit, he went slowly back and lay down again beside the fire, staring into its red heart until his eyes smarted.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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
Ireland come into the match smarting from their 36-14 loss to France in their tournament opener last week.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Derek Weeks started his search about six months ago, still smarting from last Christmas when he couldn’t secure a reindeer to go with his Santa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
It clearly left him smarting and he's not had a good word to say about wind power since.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
Leaves fell around them in flurries, stinging and smarting when they touched Tristran's skin, cutting and slicing at his clothes.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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