How to Use smart card in a Sentence

smart card

noun
  • The smart card is issued in person and has a picture of the holder on it.
    — Time, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Phones, online marketplaces, smart cards, streaming video and much more all depend on them.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In addition to smart cards the state is working on other smartphone apps for the rail system.
    — Sandra Gomez-Aceves, courant.com, 6 June 2018
  • While commuters could pay for the parking spaces with cash or smart cards, the city lost money while data issue was sorted out.
    — Erin Hegarty, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • DirecTV sent programmatic code in the stream… that hunted down hacked smart cards and destroyed them.
    — ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
  • The smart cards inserted into the readers used a code library that had yet to be patched against the Minerva attack.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 June 2023
  • The smart card usually has to be installed in the office desktop and doesn’t function well with the internet speeds available in most homes.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Latch’s hardware and software system allows entry using methods such as a passcode, smartphone or a smart card.
    — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 16 July 2017
  • Voters were then sent to a ballot-marking device with a smart card indicating which ballot the voter should receive.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 June 2020
  • This new Wave smart card garnered the most support in surveys, officials said previously.
    — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Avetisov compares the technology to the public key encryption used in smart cards, except without the card.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Proximity sensors replace a cumbersome process that required a smart card in just the right spots to lock, unlock and start the vehicle.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Proximity sensors replace a cumbersome process that required a smart card in just the right spots to lock, unlock and start the vehicle.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Triggering the errors relied on techniques such as tampering with a computer’s power supply or shining a laser on a smart card.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Wood and bamboo smart card room keys are carbon neutral and biodegradable, and are part of a broader effort across all the brands to ultimately remove all single-use plastic.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • These smart cards are used by the military for identification; blanks, one participant reported, are stored around the country.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2016
  • For starters, everyone has a rechargeable smart card, called the Octopus card, that is widely used across the city to pay for everything from transport to meals and groceries.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 13 June 2019
  • The exchange will start testing the new authentication system in the first quarter and expects to decommission the smart card method in the second quarter.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The ongoing problem has made the pay-by-phone parking app and credit card payments at the daily fee parking machines unavailable for six days now, though commuters can pay with cash or smart cards.
    — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Put it all together and the costs and benefits still favor subtractive techniques for chips that are more than 100 µm thick—about the thickness used in today’s smart cards.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Feb. 2013
  • This $55 key supports the latest authentication standards, doubles as a smart card, and can be configured to spit out static passwords.
    — PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Its Ghostwriter machine uses a smart card or USB flash drive to store signatures and phrases that can be replicated on paper.
    — Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 4 June 2025
  • Right now the smart card works on every mode of travel except the Regional Rail, and an early adopters program is planned to begin for commuter rail in December.
    — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • However, for Android users, devices purchased outside of Japan don’t support the proper software to be used with Japanese smart cards.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Compared to traditional key cards, smart cards provide secure and auditable security and can help leaders better understand the daily running of the business.
    — Rob Lydic, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • The platform still uses a physical smart card to authenticate logins from brokers and clearing banks, something that made trading more difficult—even for large firms—during the worst of the pandemic.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The Performance plan also offers USB device redirection for devices like smart cards, as well as microphone pass-through.
    — Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Due to the configuration of the underlying technology, though, removing seamless SSO would mean users could not access the cloud through their smart cards.
    — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 13 June 2024
  • Shipments from China to Russia of smart cards, light-emitting diodes, polysilicon, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other goods have also risen, the firm said.
    — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Milwaukee Public Transit officials asked people to stay off city buses unless travel is essential, and encouraged passengers to avoid putting money into cash boxes and instead use smart cards or an app.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2020

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