sagely

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Murakami gestures to the walls before him, nodding his head sagely.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

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

Then things got hairy and now here they are, sagely describing this process to a dutiful filmmaker.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2023

He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie