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smart

[smahrt] / smɑrt /






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"It doesn't mean that just because you're super smart that you can't be fashionable and into glamorous things as well," she adds.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

"He's a young man, he's an honest man, he's got a vision, he's smart, well-spoken, nice, kind, which is what we need," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

“He was smart, he was kind, he was part of our show — I mean everyone loved him,” DeGeneres, teary-eyed, said in a video shared to Instagram on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

DB estimates revenue from its smart EV, AI and other new initiatives segment to have declined 4% on quarter to 23.8 billion yuan, given flat vehicle deliveries in 3Q.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

All while wearing smart dresses and fashionable bonnets, of course.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The tech expert tells the paper: "We're going to have to share the planet with something smarter than us. They're going to take over."

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Voters are smarter than that. People in the coalition see these tactics and are tired of them too.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Years later, I’ve become a more confident cook and, I think, a smarter host.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“He’s smarter than I am, he’s more articulate than I am. He’s got an encyclopedic knowledge of history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

“What? Do you think you’re smarter than them? Well, you’re not. You dragged them all into this mess with your self-righteousness.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Maybe job hopping isn’t the smartest career move after all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

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 must not have been the smartest monster.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Now coach Thomas Randolph is looking to utilize his athleticism and smarts as a receiver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Winmill said his bets rely on smarts at the tops of companies.

From MarketWatch ● 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

The bottom line was that Bobby Moch was smart and he knew how to use his smarts.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

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

Americans accustomed to free and easy returns are now smarting from surprise fees, shorter return windows, delayed refunds and more questions about their reasons for sending products back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

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 was still smarting from what had happened to me two days before.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac


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