wise up
Example Sentences
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We are getting it good and hard now; the question is whether we can wise up fast enough to avoid the worst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Just when the Lakers organization seemed to wise up and settle down and eschew short-term wins for big-picture gains, here it goes panicking and plotting and going all Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Brett Baird, the office manager for Green Home Solutions, which does weatherization work in Pennsylvania and New Jersey under agreements with local utilities, said consumers are just beginning to wise up.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
There are deals being signed left and right, they say, as more people wise up.
From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2022
A surgeon, by licence and assent of such as were wise, up rose, and to Meliboeus said as ye may hear.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
