smarts

/ smɑːts /

plural noun

1. slang,  know-how, intelligence, or wits

   street smarts

Example Sentences

Where are the sensible, honorable folks who possess the smarts and the backbone to craft a fair deal?

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The goslings had made plenty of short flights, but a migration would require real strength and smarts.

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Thanks to her robotic strength and smarts, she made excellent progress.

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It made me realize that I had book knowledge in a situation that demanded street smarts.

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But it only ever feels like homage, not anything organic — Stuckmann doesn’t have his mentor’s storytelling smarts, nor his flair for the underpinnings of normality that ground horror.

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