wise
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Given the compressed running time, the film has more memories of Mitt appearing practical and wise than of being a bastard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Ben will be quite wise with his decisions of where he goes, how long for, how many games he's going to play," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Between the sale of my business, my savings and some wise investments I made early on, I’ve built quite a little nest egg.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
But you’d be wise to keep proving your worth and brace for a modest raise, if you get one at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There are no houses, no huts, just wise old trees in spring leaf, standing guard over the sandy shore.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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No one, not even family and friends in attendance, would be the wiser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Taking the slower route of chipping away at your debt with your income, rather than your retirement savings, is the wiser option here.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
This season, he’s healthy, wiser and ready to improvise even more to take advantage of his running and passing skills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He's a little bit older, a little bit wiser.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I think you might be wiser than you give yourself credit for.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Reading her work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
If Wembanyama is around, the wisest course of action is simply a U-turn—or as Kornet calls it for Victor, a “V-turn.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta heads a misfit but inevitably successful team of New York detectives, headed by the driest, wisest chief in TV history — Captain Holt, played by the late, great Andre Braugher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
But you here, whom nature made the wisest of all people, should drop your anger and make everyone who fights alongside us at sea a kinsman, a citizen.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
He cradled the sad, small bundle that had once been the wisest and oldest mouse of Redwall.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Eventually, I wised up and just started ordering my own.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
The fable of what transpires when a young man raised by elves goes back to investigate his human roots, it manages to be both genuinely sweet and just a teensy bit wised up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
That's something people have really wised up to.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022
They wised up at some point, whereas I still hadn’t learned.
From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2021
Though he looks soft, he’s already wised up that life can be hard.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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But now, experts say, Milei is wising up to the game, giving up some campaign promises while maneuvering to secure enough other priorities to claim victory.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
While U.S. players have led the development of retail media networks, European retailers are wising up to the opportunity.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
“I hope he’s wising up to the stupidity of what he’s doing.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
Increasingly, people are wising up to both the company’s serious threat as a monopoly and its willingness to seek domination at the expense of the health of its blue-collar workers.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2018
So I heard; his nibs here," indicating the bartender, "has been wising me up, a lot.
From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B. M. Bower
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