smart
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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
TXSE’s pitch to companies is that affiliating with the state of Texas is the smart business play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
When it comes to AI, it would be smart to show that it enhances your problem-solving abilities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
I told him what a smart monkey he was and how much I’d like to be his friend.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
"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
“We talk down to people. We talk past people. They think we just think we’re smarter than other people, that we’re so judgmental and full of ourselves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Our customers really use us as an alternative…to be smarter in what they’re doing based on the economic conditions out there,” said Jerry Jory, a division vice president at Ezcorp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But China also offers something else to firms that are trying to make the technology smarter: complex driving conditions.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
As time went on, though, and the Academy started sending Glitchers in to capture them, the Butterflies got smarter and a lot sneakier.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
In a sector defined by massive hype, his thesis is a reminder that sometimes the smartest bet isn’t on the obvious front-runners, but on the players with room to grow.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Confirmation bias is strong in this field,” she writes, finding scant evidence for such widespread birth-order claims as the notion that eldest children are smartest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“You always were the smartest of the three of us,” Uncle Ty says.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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
When Anthropic announced a new model called Mythos, the company didn’t tout hyperrealistic video clips or stellar math smarts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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
“There you go with those smarts again,” Aunt Nancy says.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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
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
The pellets under the skin of Boxer’s leg smarted painfully.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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
Many 60/40 investors are still smarting from a terrible experience in 2022, when the funds’ slow-and-steady strategy appeared to backfire.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 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
Her eyes roved across my face, which was smarting with pain, and then settled on your cut lip, but she didn’t comment.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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