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smarted

verb

past tense of smart

as in ached

to feel or cause physical pain the injection only smarted for a moment

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Recent Examples of smarted The abrupt booting smarted even more because no one from Decca had notified Dolly about the decision or given her a heads-up that the press would be calling. — Martha Ackmann, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

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People who ached for a better life were being ordered back into the old one, by statute and tax collector alike.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Her lower back had ached during dinner, and, sure enough, there was the tarnished rust of her period in her underwear.

— Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

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His frequent, sweeping cross-field balls to right wing-back Daniel Munoz helped Forest find space in which to hurt their opponents.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
One staffer at a top AI company told CNN the fears of how AI could hurt humanity keeps them up at night.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026

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