sagacious
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Sagacious center Matt Birk is the glue that holds this front together.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2011
Sagacious Tony Richardson is a classic fullback and is entering his 16th season.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2010
Sagacious, this arrangement will keep out of the "flat" all tedious titled acquaintances, obstreperous suppliants, cranks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sagacious, with fine forecast, with a high ideal, and yet up to a certain point a most tolerant temper, he was a fine specimen of the Scottish gentleman.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Sagacious as this determination of our commander was, it did not give universal satisfaction.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew
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