sagely
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But the alternative, as “Backrooms” so sagely implies, is remaining stuck in the past, letting ourselves be mutated and misremembered until we look nothing like us at all.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
Murakami gestures to the walls before him, nodding his head sagely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
At one point, Mr. Loomis quotes his protagonist sagely predicting, “we’ll have a depression . . . and it will be the end of an era.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Labour has nodded sagely at the urgency of the issue.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
