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
There are deals being signed left and right, they say, as more people wise up.
From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022
Gray, the former Sanders press secretary, wishes all progressives would wise up and call themselves leftists, but she understands these semantic discussions are taking place among a tiny subset of highly engaged citizens.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2021
Of one thing he felt assured, that it was in no wise up to him to speak or do first.
From Nan of Music Mountain by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
