smart
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The measure comes as smart glasses -- especially those marketed by Meta under popular brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley -- are causing growing concern in Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Like them, you want the satire to make you feel smart, to make you feel like you’re one of the good guys?
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
A first-grade district lesson plan presented to teachers called “My Friend AI” suggested teachers use language like, “AI is like a smart helper that can learn and help us do things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The statement remembered Fiona, who died at 13 years old, as a “loving girl who was smart, creative, and loved to dance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
She’s smart enough to figure out that we moved in with Aunt Melissa.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
He added: "An environment where things like this can happen is no place to grow artificial minds that could be smarter than we are and that might not do what we want them to."
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
There is no way to totally protect your self-esteem or your bank account, but you can make smarter choices about who you ask out by taking some preliminary steps before a date.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The investment in Pilgrim offers a window into how some of the leaders of major AI labs are thinking about the potential biological risks of AI that is smarter than humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“I am smarter than the entire DEA put together,” he allegedly said in another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
She shook her finger and frowned, telling him he should have been smarter, especially since he was a doctor and all.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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
“He might be one of the smartest rookies I’ve ever seen,” Pipkins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Superintelligence is the point at which AI will have surpassed even the smartest humans across several domains.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
While engineers work on building even better sensors for our fingers and wrists, the smartest way to use a health tracker might be knowing when to ignore it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
They called Wall Street trading desks and asked for menus of subprime mortgage bonds, so they might find the most rotten ones and buy the smartest insurance.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
New Zealand's smarts initially defused the fire and fury inside the cauldron, however.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The owners know they can’t legislate smarts into their contract, so they’re trying the next best thing — tying the hands of their own big spenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The new Siri is powered by Apple Intelligence, which runs on Apple Foundational Models, which tap in to Google’s Gemini smarts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Winmill said his bets rely on smarts at the tops of companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
I thought the same about him but had i he smarts not to mention it.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
"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
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
My nose was tender and smarted when I touched it.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
Hollywood’s workforce is already smarting, with job losses steepening after dual strikes by actors and writers three years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
He is still smarting about the Dodgers’ response, adding “people are still talking about all of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
So, still smarting from my perceived humiliation, I brought in the paper to show the teacher.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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