smarts
/ (smɑːts) /
slang, mainly US know-how, intelligence, or wits: street smarts
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How to use smarts in a sentence
We channeled all our criminal smarts into finding ways to con the food system.
Tales of a Jailhouse Gourmet: How I learned to Cook in Prison | Daniel Genis | June 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKobeissi still gets criticized as an outsider, and it still smarts.
Crypto for the Masses: Here’s How You Can Resist the NSA | Quinn Norton | May 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe one thing they all seemed to have in common was an utter lack of street smarts.
Some people have the smarts to grow the economic pie more than others and will end up serving themselves a relatively big slice.
Never Mind Inequality: Silicon Valley Enriches All of Our Lives | Gregory Ferenstein | May 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYet seriously there cannot be any doubt about Ted Cruz's "smarts."
Possibly there was considerable of irony in it too, the kind that smarts with all lads.
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour | George A. WarrenZu schwer bezahlt man oft ein leicht Versehn—One often smarts pretty sharply for a slight mistake.
Her eye smarts or itches; and without thinking, she rubs it with a finger covered with the Magical Ointment.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney HartlandI hoped he'd had the smarts to wipe his fingerprints off the quarter, keep his hood up, and leave all his arphids at home.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowOccasionally, I tried to take the long-hoarded sting out of these compunctious smarts by attending divine service in the open air.
Our Old Home, Vol. 2 | Nathaniel Hawthorne
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