sagacious
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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
“Even at an early age, Charlie showed sagacious negotiating ability, and usually gained a bigger specimen or one with unusual coloring,” Broggie wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
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
Vocabulary lists containing sagacious
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Grade 11, List 5
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