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Reigns also laid waste to Punk inside a steel cage as his wise man, Paul Heyman, consoled Punk in the ring.
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.
—Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
As the light of that star led the wise men to the light of the world, so we are called to follow the light of our Savior Jesus.
—Gordon Pennertz, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
As a wise man once said, this tournament is about the flags, not the cameras.
—Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.
—Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
As the light of that star led the wise men to the light of the world, so we are called to follow the light of our Savior Jesus.
—Gordon Pennertz, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
As a wise man once said, this tournament is about the flags, not the cameras.
—Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wise man
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Lalo is a true Renaissance man: a performer at the piano, a painter with notes, a conductor and composer who has scored some of the most memorable films of the past half-century.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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If there’s such a thing as an 18-year-old Renaissance man, Moore is that.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
28 June 2025
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But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.—
John Kaag,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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In South Africa, the teen-age seer Nongqawuse foretold that the European settlers would be swept into the sea and a golden age would dawn—if only her people slaughtered their cattle and burned their crops.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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Herbs: Anise, basil, bay laurel, chive, dill, ginger, lemon balm, Mexican tarragon, mint, oregano, sage, sweet marjoram and thyme.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
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Dishes are flavored with epazote, sage, mint, cota, and wild parsley and seasoned with native chilies and, most important, salt that the Pueblo people traditionally harvested from the Zuni Salt Lake and the Estancia Valley, both in New Mexico.—
Michael Shaikh
June 25,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2025
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