sagely

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At one point, Mr. Loomis quotes his protagonist sagely predicting, “we’ll have a depression . . . and it will be the end of an era.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Labour has nodded sagely at the urgency of the issue.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

The film, which Mr. Canby called “a sagely funny comedy, both heartfelt and sophisticated,” gave the singer Rubén Blades his breakout acting role.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

Kozinn and Sinclair sagely begin their book with an epigraph in which McCartney himself gets to the heart of the matter.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2022

They nodded sagely and there was another moment of silence.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss