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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of smart.
- n. (chiefly US) intelligence; smartness
Etymologies
- Middle English, stinging, keen, alert, from Old English smeart, causing pain.
Examples
“Efforts to focus on smarts is code for picking winners, rather than letting everyone vote with their dollars.”
“That kind of "smarts" is sorely missing on the TV remotes themselves, agreed B.”
“July 29th, 2009 11: 19 am ET anybody with any smarts is not going to vote for that piece of s. .t health scare bill. the libs just want that control”
“And basketball smarts is also more important than athleticism.”
“Their self congratulatory engineering nerdy smarts is starting to takeover from their hard working, smart deal structuring obsessively perfect consumer products that are simple.”
“Rudy Wittshirk, an outdoorsman and occasional commentary writer in these pages, once told me that growing up in New York made him a better outdoorsman -- street smarts translates to trail smarts, because the common theme is awareness.”
“The UC San Diego NanoEngineers and their collaborators at Clarkson University continue to make progress on the system's "smarts" - enzyme logic gates that will process the sensed biomarker information and tease out accurate, automated diagnoses that will in some cases trigger the release of drugs, explained Wang, who has been working on sensor technologies for more than two decades.”
“Staffing smarts from the American Staffing Association”
“The nation depends on our autonomy, determination, and just plain smarts.”
The Huffington Post: Bob Jacobson: The President Is Dispiriting
“No wonder our kids are lagging behind the world in smarts.”
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