wit

He will be remembered for his sensitivity, wit, inteligence, and depth of spirit he brought to those who knew and loved him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Kyle Hermann, a 29-year-old teacher from California, praised Rubio's "charm and his wit" and said he hoped both men could emerge from any primary battle without damaging each other.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Huggins described Norman as a humble man who lived to 107 and said his humour, wit, wisdom and anecdotes about living a long life would be greatly missed.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

There was, however, “a serpent lurking in the long grass”—to wit, Thatcher, for whom Mr. Kidd has the purest loathing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Not for wit or competence or any of the reasons for which Clare had been chosen, but for her kindness.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

At each of those jobs, Kiffin had to use his wits to make up ground against college football’s historic powerhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

One of the most famous episodes in Homer’s poem finds Odysseus and his men facing the Cyclops Polyphemus in his cave, where their struggle becomes a battle of wits: lies, taunts, a drunken ruse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

They've broken new ground and set new records, they've challenged the way of things in Scotland and have scared the wits out of the biggest guns.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

“Do not frighten the wits out of the poor thing!”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

“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

I would be devastated if I never got to taste Genet Agonafer’s doro wot again, and I’m not the one laboring in the kitchen for three days on the sauce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2018

I says each time,—and I goes out in the air to say it under the open heavens,—‘but wot, if I gets liberty and money, I’ll make that boy a gentleman!’

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

Thou wost eek what thy lady graunted thee, And day is set, the chartres up to make.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Among his Canterbury Pilgrims he says:—   A schipman was ther, wonyng fer by weste;   For ought I wost, he was of Dertemouthe.

From What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Gordon Home

"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

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

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013

At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist: It moved, and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various

Then wrought proud Lady Svanè lyle What Rosmer little wist; For she's tane out the goud sae red, 100 And laid hersel i' the kist.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

And again He came, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they wist not what to answer Him.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick

They fled away as far as they might hear speaking of the Englishmen, and left their houses well stuffed, and granges full of corn, they wist not how to save and keep it.”

From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton

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

A witting asset is a person or entity who knows that there is a foreign power working in their interest.

From Salon ● May 22, 2019

In the meantime Sanders, little witting that Sam'l had trumped his trick, was sauntering along the kirk-wynd, with his hat on the side of his head.

From Auld Licht Idylls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie