wise
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Lee said it’s not wise to make “irrational portfolio decisions” during a “violent tape.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some people have the ability to recognize problems, assess possible remedies, seek wise advice and apply those lessons to their own circumstances.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Such an amen chorus, however wise and worthy, doesn’t seem to help Berry anticipate the scrutiny of more skeptical observers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I can speak to the king’s wise men and search all the Name Books.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Do you think that’s just because you’ve experienced it and you’re also just older and wiser?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
“Students who have financial education in high school, they make wiser, better choices about how they’re going to fund their college,” Bean said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The wiser course is to work with his government to check Chinese influence in the hemisphere and to build, carefully and gingerly, on the shared interest in a stable Venezuela.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Thirteen years since leaving the Bernabeu Stadium, he is older, greyer, and perhaps a little wiser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Call me Uncle Sage,” he told us, “because I feel a whole lot wiser than before.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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That makes the wisest, most tried-and-true rules all the more valuable in these volatile times.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Just because Minneapolis and Hennepin County can refuse to cooperate, does it follow that refusing cooperation is the wisest course of action?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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
Whether it is Slot or those on the pitch, then, it is largely Liverpool's wisest heads who are making the difference in the key moments.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Kvasir, wisest of the gods, walked in through the first door.
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
The fable of what transpires when a young man raised by elves goes back to investigate his human roots, it manages to be both genuinely sweet and just a teensy bit wised up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
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
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
“I hope he’s wising up to the stupidity of what he’s doing.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
At the same time that more of Congress is getting on board, movers and shakers in the business community are also wising up to the benefits of paid family leave.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
I'm wising you up so you won't hand her any more misery by trying to take her part.
From Cow-Country by B. M. Bower
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