sapience

Example Sentences

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She continues with more sapience, offering Gerri as a sounding board.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2023

The legal lines defining who is in and who is out of the arc of legal protection are not, as Happy’s case shows, based on sapience or sentience or other rational boundaries.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2022

Such sapience only fully blossoms with maturity and hindsight, which "PEN15" creators and stars Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine fully capitalize upon in the final descent of their series' arc.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2021

They changed both law and policing, he believes, but most of all, they demonstrated the heroism and political sapience of the Queen.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2013

"I know," said Lord Crosland, and he nodded gravely with the immeasurable sapience of a boy of twenty-one.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar