Recent Examples on the WebAs the assertive Sun in your communication zone aligns with street-smart Pluto in your social sector, there should be someone in your network who has had a similar experience.—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2024 The street-smart Armstrong gave up early on trying to fight back against bigoted record companies, theater managers, and movie producers.—Larry Tye, Fortune, 4 May 2024 Bill Jorgensen, a serious-minded broadcast journalist who for 12 years anchored the pioneering, street-smart 10 p.m. newscast on New York’s Channel 5, died on March 13 at his home in Franklin, N.C.—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024 To safeguard him from a terror group led by the heinous Jacob Pearce, Taleb teams with street-smart MI6 operative Zara Taylor.—John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024 As the days progress, the audience witnesses his quiet interactions with Takashi (Tokio Emoto), a lazy 20-something co-worker, and Takashi’s street-smart girlfriend Aya (Aoi Yamada).—Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023 To have a lasting impact, Gates needs to move beyond book-smart elites in privileged circles and champion street-smart unicorn-entrepreneurs everywhere.—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 Oozing street-smart charm, Moon makes an impressive professional debut as Keys’s alter ego (although one hopes that with this octave-traversing role, Moon’s voice remains suitably rested).—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023 Here is the street-smart, underappreciated black blues guitarist who passes his knowledge and experience on to a keen white boy who cares only for the music and nothing for the racial apartheid of his day: a friendship that belies all the stereotypes of country music.—Geoff Mann, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
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