street smarts

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Recent Examples of street smarts There’s a certain amount of street smarts every city dweller must acquire, but the shorthand is: Don’t put yourself in dangerous situations. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025 Bus operators rely on common sense and street smarts when confronted with unexpected events and emergencies, ranging from flash floods to terrorism. Curtis Tate, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024 His Catwoman, in the final installment of his trilogy, needed to exude intelligence, toughness, and street smarts. Chris Bellamy and Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 2 May 2024 As Hernández Cordón pointed out, Calva straddles the line between his middle-class upbringing, raised by a single mother who instilled in him an affinity for the arts, and the street smarts attained by wandering a large metropolis with kids from other socioeconomic backgrounds. Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for street smarts

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“Street smarts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/street%20smarts. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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