smarts

/ smɑːts /

plural noun

1. slang.
   know-how, intelligence, or wits

   street smarts

Example Sentences

The Dodgers have shown they have the money, and the smarts, and everything else required to sign the cornerstones who can keep the championship foundation strong.

From Los Angeles Times

But then gambling scandals happened and position changes happened and injuries happened and the summer nearly went off the rails before baseball boss Andrew Friedman’s smarts and Roberts’ leadership saved them from themselves.

From Los Angeles Times

Critics have suggested Harris’ rise had more to do with political savvy — or her relationship in the mid-1990s with San Francisco political kingmaker Willie Brown — than talent or smarts.

From Los Angeles Times

Then he mused: “I need an Elon Musk. I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts.”

From Los Angeles Times

Of course the barons of Silicon Valley are drawn to myths about their superior intelligence because they work in an industry that values smarts and rewards brilliant inventors.

From Salon