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As mentioned last month, it’s dark, smart and compelling, and consistently takes a familiar plot setup into unexpected territory; it’s worth a binge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Joanne Kaufman writes that Ryan Effgen’s family comedy sparkles with “genuine humor, smart writing and an ending that bravely goes for hopeful rather than happy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Ossoff and Talarico have both been smart about not just highlighting corruption, but also why it matters for voters.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Now smart handicappers, like the folks at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, say control of the Senate is a toss-up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“I’m glad you’ll be modeling in the show again. I think that was a smart move on my part to suggest you, don’t you agree?”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The Dodgers spend it smarter than anyone else and the Mets, arguably, dumber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

But with science, medicine and smarter policies, we’re beginning to change the rules of the game.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Someone smarter than me can do that calculation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

“But I’m glad we established that I’m smarter than you.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

"He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams," Dolly wrote.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

It remains a mystery why the smartest machines in the universe need our moral support, but researchers inside the frontier labs do have theories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The Dodgers’ injury-scarred rotation needed a stud starting pitcher like Skubal and, as this column noted last month, there was no excuse for baseball’s wealthiest and smartest team not to grab him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

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

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

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

Even Bodega with his street smarts and cunning lacked what Nazario had.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

Turks smarted at the sight of Russians casually snapping up products most local people would struggle to afford.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 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

My nose was tender and smarted when I touched it.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

But many businesses—some still smarting from being late to the AI boom—are spending big on the technology today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

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

It helped that his father hated Chandler, still smarting from a row years before.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead