wise
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Whether delaying benefits until age 70 was a wise decision is not changed by the fact that he died shortly thereafter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Mr. Mandelbaum answers all these questions in “The American Way of Foreign Policy,” a wise little book, accessible to nonspecialists, that should become a quiet, unflashy classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Congress would be wise to incorporate the court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
As of now, this is probably the best location that I could think of in America, weather wise, culture wise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
As far as she knew, the wise old founder had never had to flee actors dressed as pirates by crawling through a dank, dark tunnel into the British Museum after hours.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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“Warren and I are mostly peers, but sometimes he is so much wiser than I am, he’s like a father figure to me,” Gates wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Instead, it would be far wiser for policymakers to focus on directly strengthening the social safety net, so every patient has equitable access to treatments without financial hardship.
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
So what would a wiser return look like?
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Rather than having an all-or-nothing change in beneficiaries, it’s wiser to have a more balanced approach, one that you and your husband can review every year, or so.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Mainly because as each of us gets better and wiser in our particular areas of expertise, we have to toss everything and start over, deeming the old material to be childish and unprofessional.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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If Wembanyama is around, the wisest course of action is simply a U-turn—or as Kornet calls it for Victor, a “V-turn.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta heads a misfit but inevitably successful team of New York detectives, headed by the driest, wisest chief in TV history — Captain Holt, played by the late, great Andre Braugher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
I think this is, by far, the wisest course in the short term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
But you here, whom nature made the wisest of all people, should drop your anger and make everyone who fights alongside us at sea a kinsman, a citizen.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
The smallest and the wisest of the sons of Ivaldi simply shrugged.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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Eventually, I wised up and just started ordering my own.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
Media, especially after Theranos, wised up a bit.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022
They wised up at some point, whereas I still hadn’t learned.
From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2021
College coaching staffs have wised up to benign fraud and view unverified workout stats with skepticism.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2021
The truth is I’ve wised up already—to him.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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But now, experts say, Milei is wising up to the game, giving up some campaign promises while maneuvering to secure enough other priorities to claim victory.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
While U.S. players have led the development of retail media networks, European retailers are wising up to the opportunity.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
Is this another N95 mask situation, where the public wising up to the supposed utility of something ends up shuffling them away from the people who need them most?
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2020
In short, teams appear to be wising up.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
I'm wising you up so you won't hand her any more misery by trying to take her part.
From Cow-Country by Bower, B. M.
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