sage
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Upon entering the home, guests are greeted with an expansive living area that features wooden beams on the ceiling, French doors that open up to the balcony, a cozy fireplace, and a sage green bar.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
In several essays, including one titled “The Wandering Jew,” Elie Wiesel describes his friendship with a mysterious, charismatic sage who dresses like a beggar but whose Jewish learning enthralls all those who meet him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Before each session, McDaniel invites clients to share their personal histories, and then McDaniel performs bodywork through touch as sage smoke curls in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
But like a sage on the basketball mountaintop, Wooden wouldn’t give a direct answer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
She listened to stories about the boys we loved and the girls we hated, and offered sage and thoughtful advice.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Fox News’ Jessica sager contributed to this report.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2019
If they could trust his sincerity, Republicans could have found no sager counselor than Charley Michelson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your general practitioner is a suspiciously omniscient person, and it is far sager to know less and to charge more.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
But joining the Little Red Book author in a shrine to the all-time sagest minds in golf would be his English counterpart, John Jacobs.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
Scapegoat elected for Mussolini's Albanian fiasco was white-haired, crinkle-eyed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the General Staff, universally recognized as Italy's sagest soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
"By 1997 some filmmakers will have been absorbed into Hollywood," says Norman Wang, a New York-based film publicist and one of the Hong Kong industry's sagest insiders.
From Time Magazine Archive
Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The impressions he made upon me suggested he was not of the sagest, nor of the most excellent of men.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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