smarty
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Let’s bring on Division II and those zero-scholarship smarty pantses in Division III. Throw in a couple of quality high school teams from Florida and Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Velma, the bespectacled, orange-turtleneck-wearing smarty of the Scooby-Doo gang, is apparently queer, at least in the new, direct-to-digital and DVD film "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!"
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022
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
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
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
Subscribers to our weekly midterms newsletter, the Hot Seats, are smarties who know about all the interesting races before their primary results make headlines.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2018
"Jist as ye warrned me, thim smarties they do be hearin' what I called out till yees about the other boat," replied Jimmie.
From Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie by Louis Arundel
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