sage
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But Bettany, whose character Vision is an android attempting to piece together his wiped memories and fragile humanity, had some sage advice.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Jordan sewed sage green curtains to conceal additional storage spaces and further brighten the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Parsley, chives, dill, sage, thyme — use what you have, and probably more of it than you initially think you need.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The colorful aesthetic follows into the kitchen, which is adorned with sage green cabinetry, a wooden island, and state-of-the-art appliances.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
In her hand was a cup of lavender and sage tea.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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Fox News’ Jessica sager contributed to this report.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2019
If they could trust his sincerity, Republicans could have found no sager counselor than Charley Michelson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most Britons, as Lord Byron once put it, "till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager."
From Time Magazine Archive
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How about the remark of reputedly sager and more worldly-wise of the founding fathers: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
From Time Magazine Archive
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No sager counsel from so young in years e’er yet have I heard.
From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere
But joining the Little Red Book author in a shrine to the all-time sagest minds in golf would be his English counterpart, John Jacobs.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
Uncle Giorgio was the sagest bandit chieftain in Sicily and, as a man of rugged common sense, considerably disturbed about his favorite nephew, Aquila.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"By 1997 some filmmakers will have been absorbed into Hollywood," says Norman Wang, a New York-based film publicist and one of the Hong Kong industry's sagest insiders.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“The impressions he made upon me suggested he was not of the sagest, nor of the most excellent of men.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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