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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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In the show, a street-smart Neapolitan hustler inherits a remote estate in Finnish Lapland.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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At first, this looks like just another mismatched cop thriller, with Denzel as the street-smart veteran teaching young pup Ethan Hawke a few tricks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Costco, though, was a shrewd recombination of what had come before rather than a straight copy.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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The shrewd operator who is also wildly reactive merges both aspects of his character with his off-script moment heard ‘round the world.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Streetwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streetwise. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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