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Recent Examples of wise man
As a wise man in another summer house once said, summer should be fun.
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Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
As Dante struggles with his poem, he is sent to a wise man who can guide him, a rabbinical figure called Isaiah (not his real name, we’re told).
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Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
His later myth—of a wise man thrust into crime by circumstance—owes more to Hollywood than to history.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
The wise man, in exercising his wisdom, did not actually deprive the king of the agency to carry out his evil plan; in reality, the king had no such power.
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Lisa Rennie Sytsma,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wise man
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
As Dante struggles with his poem, he is sent to a wise man who can guide him, a rabbinical figure called Isaiah (not his real name, we’re told).
—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
His later myth—of a wise man thrust into crime by circumstance—owes more to Hollywood than to history.
—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
The wise man, in exercising his wisdom, did not actually deprive the king of the agency to carry out his evil plan; in reality, the king had no such power.
—
Lisa Rennie Sytsma,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wise man
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wise man
Noun
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The Renaissance man leaves behind thousands of notes with a curious twist: They’re written in reverse and legible by mirror.
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Acclaimed designer Jonathan Adler is the definition of a Renaissance man.
Noun
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Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
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Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
Noun
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Photograph by Sébastien Leban for TIME France A talent out of the ordinary, precocious beyond doubt… Kylian Mbappé has all the qualities of a sage who seems to have already lived nearly everything by the age of 27.
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Green, in soft shades from sage to pistachio, is a new neutral that adds nice brightness to a spring wardrobe.
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