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They wanted to linger for a few days, which turned into four days of heavy drinking and blasting wit, much of it at James’s expense.
TO FIND HOPE IN AMERICAN COOKING, JAMES BEARD LOOKED TO THE WEST COASTJOHN BIRDSALLOCTOBER 2, 2020EATER
To wit, check out this latest ETF flow data from BoA Securities.
IS M&A BACK? INVESTORS HOPE SO, AND THAT’S LIFTING GLOBAL STOCKSBERNHARD WARNERSEPTEMBER 15, 2020FORTUNE
To wit, the kids this morning masked up and entered the school building, one at a time.
A FLURRY OF M&A DEALS LIFTS GLOBAL STOCKS. YES, EVEN TECH STOCKSBERNHARD WARNERSEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNE
With caustic wit, Iannucci examines the humanity of his characters and the absurdity of their behavior with both passion and precision.
FROM THE VAULTS – STRAIGHT, BUT NOT NARROWBRIAN T. CARNEYSEPTEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
To wit, buyers appeared eager to jump back into tech names Wednesday.
WHERE DO TECH STOCKS GO FROM HERE?ANNE SRADERSSEPTEMBER 10, 2020FORTUNE
I suppose it is a sort of nemesis of wit; the skidding of a wheel in the height of its speed.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWGILBERT K. CHESTERTON
Men of wit and learning employ themselves to celebrate his talents, and to express their approbation of his writings.
In fine, Nosti est au bout de son latin (is at his wit's end, poor devil)!
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. VII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
The man that marries my Fan has got to have sabe enough to round up a flock of goats—and wit enough to get up in the morning.
THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILSHAMLIN GARLAND
Her beauty, her wit, they were her own; but they had availed her little before her betrothment to Rube.
WORDS RELATED TO WIT
- acuity
- acuteness
- astuteness
- awareness
- brains
- brilliance
- cleverness
- comprehension
- cunning
- discernment
- discrimination
- farsightedness
- good taste
- grasp
- guile
- ingenuity
- insight
- intellect
- intelligence
- intuition
- judgment
- keenness
- perception
- percipience
- perspicacity
- perspicuity
- refinement
- sagacity
- sensitivity
- sharpness
- shrewdness
- smartness
- smarts
- understanding
- vision
- wisdom
- wit
- antic
- buffoon
- comedian
- comic
- cut-up
- dolt
- droll
- farceur
- fool
- funnyperson
- funster
- gagman
- gagster
- harlequin
- humorist
- jester
- joker
- jokesmith
- jokester
- life of the party
- madcap
- merry-andrew
- merrymaker
- mime
- mountebank
- mummer
- picador
- pierrot
- prankster
- punch
- punchinello
- quipster
- ribald
- wag
- wisecracker
- wit
- zany
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