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

They nodded sagely and there was another moment of silence.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss