wise up
Example Sentences
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The public is finally starting to wise up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
When do you suppose our major universities will wise up to the notion of serving as a free farm club for the NFL and NBA?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
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
Because his education has been general in the field, and he now holds a position with a company manufacturing steam-turbines, say, he must "wise up," as the saying goes, on the subject of steam-turbines.
From Opportunities in Engineering by Charles M. (Charles Marcus) Horton
