sage
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And he adds: “As many sage investors have said, ‘markets bottom on bad news’ — so, Friday will be the test.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 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
“It’s a sage on the stage in a lecture hall.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
In several essays, including one titled “The Wandering Jew,” Elie Wiesel describes his friendship with a mysterious, charismatic sage who dresses like a beggar but whose Jewish learning enthralls all those who meet him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
At the indoor spice market, the merchants arranged open crates with colored mounds of red saffron threads, yellow turmeric, purple sumac, blue salt, black pepper, brown sugar, and green dried sage.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Fox News’ Jessica sager contributed to this report.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2019
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
At seventy you are sager than ever, though scarcely so strong.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
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
"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
Perhaps not the sagest fellow to counsel the future Queen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scapegoat elected for Mussolini's Albanian fiasco was white-haired, crinkle-eyed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the General Staff, universally recognized as Italy's sagest soldier.
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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