sage
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How she stumbles away from mourning is sometimes weird, but one of her friends offers sage advice as she does so: “It’s okay to be messy. That’s life, you know.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
At this point, the architects of Bass’ campaign need to burn sage to drive out bad spirits or just bow out altogether.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Another benefit of the sage age of fourteen: There are many things you just know.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
If they could trust his sincerity, Republicans could have found no sager counselor than Charley Michelson.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the Grand Old Casuist says, Speaking with the sager caution of his earlier calmer days.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890 by Various
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
Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters.
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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