wise up
Example Sentences
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If the leaders of the party know this fact, they are certainly not going to wise up their foot soldiers.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
It’s a scam, of course, one that only he knows is happening and it requires him and his hoodwinked team to occasionally hit the road before suckers wise up and want their money back.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
His son insisted that he wise up on climate change.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2020
For years, Vietnamese American cookbook author and expert Andrea Nguyen has maintained that Americans need to wise up to the wonders of fermented shrimp paste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2019
It is not our duty to be wise above that which is written; but it is our duty to be wise up to that which is written: otherwise it was written in vain.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
