sagely
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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
Aemond sagely offers, “This war will not be won by dragons alone, but dragons flying behind armies of men.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2024
Originally, we planned to ask Mr. Neely if we could use his window after school on Monday, but Twig shook her head and said sagely, “Better to ask forgiveness than permission.”
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
