smarty
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I make a graham cracker crust that will knock the socks off any child, no matter how big of a smarty pants they are.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2021
Additionally, after reading this recipe for poop emoji-shaped Peeps, my response is, "Well, good luck with that, smarty!"
From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2016
So we've asked our crack culture team to pick what you need to experience to be the well-rounded, culturally fluent smarty you want to be, and ordered them by importance.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011
Why don’t you write a column about that, smarty pants?
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
A couple of tough boys tried to be smarty and kept on asking her name over and over.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Ms Nicklas, who works in north Wales, said before her surgery she was "taking laxatives like they were smarties" but "still struggling to go to the toilet".
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
What happens is a version of what former philosophy students and debate-happy internet smarties will recognize as the Trolley Problem, a chestnut of hypothetical ethical disputation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Here’s how it works: Said music smarties sent us lists of their top 10 Washington albums of 2021, ranked or unranked.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
There are those, like the smarties over at FiveThirtyEight and elsewhere who have tried to control for the variables you describe between elections or sporting events.
From Fox News ● Aug. 20, 2020
Perhaps she will when she sees how my money can help your mother and me to get right in with all the smarties!
From The Climbers A Play in Four Acts by Clyde Fitch
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