Example Sentences

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Fowler had a natural gift and street wisdom for the game shared by another Scouse teenage prodigy, Wayne Rooney.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023

“While street wisdom is that Evergrande is not a ‘Lehman risk’, it is by no stretch of the imagination any meaningful comfort,” analysts at Mizuho wrote in a client note.

From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2021

Even if our firsthand local knowledge is strictly tourist fare, we’ve acquired street wisdom from Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Spike Lee.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

Analyzing viral sensations and cultural infections, they were like Statler and Waldorf in snap-back ball caps, or a version of Beavis and Butt-head elevated by eloquence and grounded in Bronx-born street wisdom.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2019

He sounded like an actor as he dispensed street wisdom.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2017