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
He maintained sagely that there is always a trade-off involved in the adoption of any policy, and that if daylight saving time were instituted, curtains and other fabrics would fade more quickly.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
