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Recent Examples of streetwise
Those exchanges gave Gout permission to pepper the screenplay with personal details and sharpen the dialogue of the Latino characters with streetwise Mexican modismos.
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Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
The quintessential scene pits Levee’s streetwise blasphemy against the religious Cutler (Colman Domingo).
—Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2021
The newspaperman and author specialized in streetwise tales of New York City.
—oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
Our conscious experience is assembled on the fly as our brains respond to constantly changing inputs, calculate potential courses of action, and execute responses like a streetwise kid.
—Michael S Gazzaniga, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
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Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
The quintessential scene pits Levee’s streetwise blasphemy against the religious Cutler (Colman Domingo).
—Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2021
The newspaperman and author specialized in streetwise tales of New York City.
—oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
Our conscious experience is assembled on the fly as our brains respond to constantly changing inputs, calculate potential courses of action, and execute responses like a streetwise kid.
—Michael S Gazzaniga, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for streetwise
Adjective
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Olivia Brown played Trudy Joplin, Gina’s equally street-smart partner who’s a bit more sensitive to the realities of the job.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Apr. 2026
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Yet there’s something disarming about how Riley’s sense of play holds this street-smart meta-rebellion fantasy together.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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Ironically, many donors facing this once-in-a-generation wealth transfer have spent decades making shrewd investment decisions to build their fortunes, only to dispatch their final philanthropic gifts with comparatively little scrutiny.—
Ed Smith-Lewis,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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Taylor did not show up, which was a shrewd move.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Streetwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streetwise. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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