smart
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These technologies generate electricity, when planned and coordinated together, and they can relieve stress on the grid, reduce peak demand and respond to fluctuations in milliseconds through advanced battery controls and smart inverter technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Zone One” is a smart take on the shuffling hordes and pandemic survivors who try to take Manhattan back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Fitness trackers - including smart rings, smart watches and chest-mounted trackers - have surged in popularity in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
And as Ma gasps her final breaths, she makes her smart little girl promise to never lose sight of her ultimate goal.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
“You’ll still be smart in high school,” he tells me.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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"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
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
She’s quiet, but she’s a lot smarter than everyone thinks.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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If I do decide to make a change, what’s the smartest way to approach a career shift like this?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
Join Dahlia and Mark as they unpack the Supreme Court term with some of the smartest legal analysts in the business.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 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
When I gave them to Holly, her eyes filled, she took my hand, and said, “Hiring you might have been the single smartest thing I’ve done in a long while.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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Winmill said his bets rely on smarts at the tops of companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
If Apple can run a Siri with Google’s Gemini smarts right on its Macs, iPhones and iPads, that could set the company on the right path toward AI success—with Ternus carrying the banner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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
If the player payroll is just about the same for every team, then success would depend in large part on the smarts of ownership and management.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
But they are smart, I give them that much, and this looks like a problem where smarts might count, so I'm headed for the kitchen.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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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
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
“The decision still smarted a little, but it was the right one,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2019
As soon as I submerged my hands, they smarted and burned.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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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
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
It clearly left him smarting and he's not had a good word to say about wind power since.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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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