smart
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The smart money will be on Root to come out of his funk, rather than this being the start of a late-career decline.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
And do you think you’re smart enough to create “Jeopardy!” clues?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Anyone wearing smart glasses can take photos, film videos, listen to music, make phone calls, translate text or interact with an AI assistant, with sales now hitting the millions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Turns out, the 49ers were smart, and the Rams were sorry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was warm and kind, funny and enthusiastic, smart and thoughtful.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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
Over the past year, it has also become proof of artificial intelligence’s rapidly accelerating progress, showing how the technology is getting much smarter, much faster than most people anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
“I just wish they would be smarter and jump from safer spots at better times.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I had to battle for my place at the top every single season, but I made it because I was stronger and fencing smarter.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Not long ago, the smartest models struggled with basic math.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
Making it seem as though there is no way that the former governor of California could do this because not even the smartest professor at Yale Law School can do this.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 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
He was, Mrs. Frisby knew, the smartest and most thoughtful of her children, though she would never have admitted this aloud.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
Risky behavior mixed with exceptional smarts is a subject near and dear to Elm’s founder, Victor Haghani.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
He first impressed Sayre as a law clerk 20 years ago for his smarts and “because I spoke Spanish and he didn’t know many people of Middle Eastern heritage who did.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
“Maybe it is. Maybe if I wasn’t hiding I’d have street smarts or something. It’s early to be blaming myself, but maybe it’s going to be my fault, Lidia.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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
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
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
There was a strange sharp smell in the air that smarted in their noses.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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
Earlier, Pep Guardiola's City went into their match against bottom side smarting after an embarrassing 3-1 Champions League defeat at Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 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
He is still smarting about the Dodgers’ response, adding “people are still talking about all of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
I ducked away, my scalp smarting, and scrambled into the oregano bushes.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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