sagacious

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It’s a sagacious survival strategy in a country where what will happen next is anybody’s guess.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025

Not many countries are often blessed with as sagacious a leader as Mariano, but many a family and institution will, through him, be reminded of the worth of such august figures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Eisenhower, for whom Ahamed’s admiration is evident, was a calm, sagacious figure who could see past Dulles’s anti-Indian stereotypes.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

So the midfielder was inserted alongside 18-year-old Ricardo Pepi and 20-year-olds Brenden Aaronson and Sergiño Dest in an American lineup captained by Tyler Adams, a sagacious 22-year-old.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2021

But Burr’s entire life had been a sermon on the capacity of the sagacious spider to lift himself out of hellish difficulties and spin webs that trapped others.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis