sagely
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You might roll your eyes at the quasi-hippie assertion, but 100 pages later, you will nod your head sagely in agreement.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 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
“Of course,” Raizel said sagely, before shifting to a more mundane line of questioning.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
