smart
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Rational is being smart and humble about uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
The person added that Paxton's victorious Democratic opponent, James Talarico, ran "a really good and smart campaign."
From BBC β Nov. 4, 2026
"He's a young man, he's an honest man, he's got a vision, he's smart, well-spoken, nice, kind, which is what we need," he said.
From Barron's β Nov. 4, 2026
“He was smart, he was kind, he was part of our show — I mean everyone loved him,” DeGeneres, teary-eyed, said in a video shared to Instagram on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 3, 2026
Bat knew the rabbit liked treats better than kids, but he also knew that Babycakes was smart enough to realize that the two often went together.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
The most you can say is that the sportsbook was smarter than any one bettor.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
"It would have been way smarter and better for us to shut up," says the Edge.
From BBC β Nov. 6, 2026
“Voters are smarter than that. People in the coalition see these tactics and are tired of them too.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 23, 2026
Years later, I’ve become a more confident cook and, I think, a smarter host.
From Salon β Oct. 20, 2026
She was so smart, smarter than me for sure.
From "Itβs Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
You could have the smartest people in the world and the best relationships inside that company, all of them working brilliantly on exactly the wrong problem.
From MarketWatch β 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 β Sep. 15, 2026
“He might be one of the smartest rookies I’ve ever seen,” Pipkins said.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 12, 2026
It is the size of a pin head – yet in many ways - more efficient than a supercomputer and able to outsmart the smartest AI.
From BBC β Sep. 3, 2026
She had fought her hardest and her smartest, and she had lost.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Now coach Thomas Randolph is looking to utilize his athleticism and smarts as a receiver.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 13, 2026
New Zealand's smarts initially defused the fire and fury inside the cauldron, however.
From BBC β Sep. 5, 2026
Americans are abandoning the belief that smarts and effort are the best ways to get ahead in life, according to new research, underscoring the pessimism many people have about their chances at financial success.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 28, 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 β Jun. 9, 2026
Dasch detected a shrewdness in Haupt, and street smarts.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
"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 β Sep. 21, 2023
There was much speculation about his state of mind, whether the scars of the first defeat still smarted.
From BBC β 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 β 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 β Jan. 2, 2022
His classmates roared with laughter, but his forehead smarted.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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 β 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 β May 21, 2026
Earlier, Pep Guardiola's City went into their match against bottom side smarting after an embarrassing 3-1 Champions League defeat at Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt.
From Barron's β Jan. 24, 2026
It clearly left him smarting and he's not had a good word to say about wind power since.
From BBC β Jul. 29, 2025
I was still smarting from what had happened to me two days before.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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