wit

His tireless travel schedule and quick wit testify to his stamina -- and he also credits his third wife Rosangela da Silva, 59, with keeping him young.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

With the kind of sparkling wit that prompts readers to cancel their subscriptions, a U.K. film critic dubbed the Iceland-based “Time and Water” documentary “glacial.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Sculpting her natural gifts of wit and brazenness into a living artwork dazzled all who came within her orbit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The presenter's friend and former Today co-host James Naughtie praised Stourton's "warm intelligence and wit", adding he was "one of the best colleagues".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Another voice shouted: “Let thee wit we have the choice of King Arthur, to save thee or to slay thee.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The trip taught him how to rely on his musical talents and his wits to survive on the road.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

For those who retain their wits, the open questions are still interesting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

At the end of each show, the judges pick two characters to face off in a battle of wits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

I am reasonably educated, and at 64, I still have most of my wits.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

As for one’s wits, it is just not true that one can live by them—not, that is, if one wishes really to live.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

After Thatcher’s Conservative successor John Major unexpectedly triumphed in the 1992 election, the tabloid boasted: “It’s the Sun wot won it.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about wot the violence interrupters are.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2021

There are numerous reasons that the inquiry has finally been ordered but, according to CNN, it was the Badasses wot won it.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2019

“Wot you ’ave to know about chimney flues,” he was declaring, “is that flues ’as several twists in ’em, cuz they’s attached to uvver flues wot shares one openin’.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018

“He’s no slouch at dog-breakin’, that’s wot I say,” one of the men on the wall cried enthusiastically.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

The Utes surrender an average of 76 points per game, which is the wost in the conference.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2011

But this week the wost was yet to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thenk eek Fortune, as wel thy-selven wost, 600 Helpeth hardy man to his enpryse, And weyveth wrecches, for hir cowardyse.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

"That thow wost wel," quod he · "and no wyghte bettere."

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand

To thee ther mai nothing ben hid, Thou wost hou it is me betid: I wolde I hadde noght be bore, For thanne I hadde noght forlore Mi speche and mi virginite.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

We Are Young, too, is wistful for an era that was already full of wist.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013

I wist not what the present generation is coming to.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Who that comrade was to be he wist not; any companionship would be better for him than none.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

Rather I wist not to have any hand in their punishment for a deed which, lawless though it be, still had the sorest provoking.”

From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall

The priest wist not what to say, but answered, "What shall I do with this fool?" and the man said, "What shall I do with this fool?"

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various

Facilitators—some witting, some not—also open bank accounts, cash checks and sit for some interviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

An agent is a paid and witting spy; he formally, sometimes covertly, works for a foreign government.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

“We expect financial institutions will undertake every effort to ensure that they are not witting or unwitting facilitators of circumvention and evasion,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement announcing the order.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Yet they often falter when reckoning with their own role, witting or not, in what came to pass.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

Thus Faustus, to so many a snare of death, had now, neither willing nor witting it, begun to loosen that wherein I was taken.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee