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To make the most of the buzz around the World Cup, Beal said brands would be smart to engage Gen Alpha—and their Gen Z or millennial parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Instead of seeming like a smart move, a computer-science degree started to look like it could be a dead end.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Beijing’s $37 billion subsidy program is steering consumers toward smart gadgets and green technology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, others, like Brighton, have leaned into data and smart recruitment to help them close the gap.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nansi is too powerful to subdue, and too smart to outsmart.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

But arriving at the future of autonomous robot helpers will require more data, smarter AI models and better hardware.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nintendo, he added, is "much smarter than many companies when it comes to re-releasing older games for a new audience".

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Go around the peak instead. You reach the same place in a much smarter way, and you use far less energy."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Analog Devices’s Shulaker said he’s confident about bringing that time down as the AI model continues learning from the samples it takes in, getting smarter about exactly what it’s looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

And it pleased me that I was named for a bird that was smarter than most.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

He told the court Noah was "the most intelligent human being I have ever met", while Charlie said he was "the smartest kid, always asking questions".

From BBC ● 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

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

She reminded them of all the pranks Tommy had played on them, of all the sterling qualities of the smartest student in their class, of why a girl, not a boy, should represent them.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

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

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The Eliza effect may refer to an overattribution of human smarts to AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

“I did not help her! Did it ever occur to you that she might have some smarts of her own?”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

Cora sat in the front of the class nowadays, and when Georgina corrected her—on her penmanship or arithmetic or speech—she no longer smarted.

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

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

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

Europe was - it still is - smarting at being sidelined.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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