sage
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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
Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
She hopes the golden yarrow will spread, and she’s especially proud of the large white sage she grew from seeds that a friend gave her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Upon entering the home, guests are greeted with an expansive living area that features wooden beams on the ceiling, French doors that open up to the balcony, a cozy fireplace, and a sage green bar.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
From a bag on the dashboard, Grandpa Nyles pulled out a small bundle of sage.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
Fox News’ Jessica sager contributed to this report.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2019
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
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Your general practitioner is a suspiciously omniscient person, and it is far sager to know less and to charge more.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
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
Perhaps not the sagest fellow to counsel the future Queen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
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
“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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