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
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
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
I'd usually begin with the high points and end, a page or two later, by dispensing such sage professional advice as “Punctuation never hurt anyone" or “Think verbs!"
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Fox News’ Jessica sager contributed to this report.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2019
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
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
I thought His life was sager now, though he has killed My hopes of seeing him a councillor.
From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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
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
Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters.
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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