smart
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Until they are available, "it's up to us to use AI in a smart way," Chevalere said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Getting back on the fairways proved a smart move.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Yet even this treasury could not add up to a background of common sense sufficient to make expert systems smart enough to be experts," Denning notes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Our critic said the series “is as much fun and smart as anything on right now.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I shushed him with mock indignance though secretly enjoying myself because I couldn’t deny it—not to Bright, anyway; he was too smart for that— Kekeli had my heart.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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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
“Our policing has gotten smarter, more organized, and more coordinated,” Bonta said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Not many English players have played at the Azteca since 1986, but even with advances in sports science and smarter preparation, those who have insist the impact is significant.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“So what? You’re smarter than any other witch I know, fancy coven or not. They’d be warlocks not to run something you wrote.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
Several of the smartest legal experts will join my colleagues Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick for a live video chat about everything that happened at the high court this year.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026
“The smartest people in the world know who’s going to win in AI, so you have to pay attention,” Melius analyst Ben Reitzes told Barron’s on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 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
She was the smartest of the seven, the one with the answers.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
It’s essentially the difference between book smarts and street smarts.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
School was a struggle, and this was a chance to show that his street smarts more than made up for it.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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"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
The result smarted: a 2-0 defeat before an announced 16,073.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 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
She pressed the white cloth to it, the red blooming like a rose, and her finger smarted from the cut.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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Americans have been smarting for years over how much more expensive everything from coffee to cars has become.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
There had been an expectation that England would be smarting after the Calcutta Cup defeat, and would put it right against Ireland.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
England, without a Six Nations title since 2020, will now face a Scotland side smarting from an 18-15 opening loss to Italy in Rome.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
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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