smart
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Kelley Kokemiller, who has a 6,500-acre farm in central Iowa, said he saves about $75,000 a year on herbicides even after paying the software fee for Deere’s smart sprayer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Apple also announced updated versions of its entry-level AirPods and smart watches, the latter of which will have improved heart-rate sensors that can be paired with an updated Health app launching later this year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Once they moved in, they were confronted with the challenge of living in an old house with high-tech amenities, like smart home technology controlled by an app, or how to open the entry gate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
“We’re all smart and we’re really working at the top of our intelligence,” he recalled thinking as he and the crew tried to make sense of their time with Holmes and Evans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Her hair was pulled back in a chignon, and she wore a smart tailored navy suit.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Maybe someone smarter or more charismatic than Erika Kirk would have been able to navigate these contradictions.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The company expects both memory and smarter agents to drive greater agent usage and token consumption overall, driving the need to lower the unit cost of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Zuckerberg noted that people fear automation will outpace individuals’ capability to get smarter and better at their jobs, leading to job displacement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Having taken the role on an interim basis during the Six Nations, Mitchell said that the coaching group is "smarter" with Scarratt's inclusion.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Yes! You’re smarter than you look. If the cucos are out hunting for the Nightbeast, they’ll leave behind things like hair and droppings. Tracking them could also lead to the Nightbeast.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Hill added that Scott became known as “aloof” and wanting to be “the smartest person in the room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It is the size of a pin head – yet in many ways - more efficient than a supercomputer and able to outsmart the smartest AI.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
At another, President Trump tells Dr. Fauci, “Lou Dobbs . . . told me that you were one of the smartest, knowledgeable and outstanding persons he knows.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Maybe it wasn’t the smartest thing to do, to hit a brawny soldier with an umbrella.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
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
“You certainly have enough smarts to be on the team.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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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 smarted as well that Prince Mohammed seemed to get no credit for the kingdom’s social changes, nor for his own efforts to avert regional conflict, including starting talks with the Iranians in Baghdad.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
The result smarted: a 2-0 defeat before an announced 16,073.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 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
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The fare will remain the LA-standard $1.75 -- a small victory for fans smarting at the $98 price tag for a round-trip train ticket between New York and MetLife Stadium.
From Barron's ● May 27, 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
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
Americans are still smarting from a surge of food prices in the wake of the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
They would walk to the falafel place on Howe Street for hummus, and sit in a dark corner talking for hours, and finally emerge, tongues smarting with garlic.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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