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- adjective Resembling a
sage (wise person).
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Examples
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He became the most prominent embodiment of how the west wanted to see the east – sagelike, mystical, descending from some less developed but perhaps more innocent civilisation; above all, exotic.
Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian Jack 2011
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In November 2006, Obama's sagelike campaign strategist David Axelrod drafted a memorandum in which he was brutally direct with the candidate:
Geoffrey Dunn: American Gomorrah--Did Palin Cost the GOP the 2008 Election? 2009
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"" Jiang wants to be the emperor, the sagelike supreme leader who stays above the fray of day-to-day government, '' says a Beijing-based western Sinologist.
Taking Power 2008
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With a sagelike glint in his eye, he said to me: "Son, I spend my daytime doing what you'll spend your lifetime trying to accomplish."
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This is also great b/c there are times when they really are surprised that I can pull a random fact about whatever, and then they believe me and listen to my sagelike advice, I am tricky like that.
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This is also great b/c there are times when they really are surprised that I can pull a random fact about whatever, and then they believe me and listen to my sagelike advice, I am tricky like that.
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This is also great b/c there are times when they really are surprised that I can pull a random fact about whatever, and then they believe me and listen to my sagelike advice, I am tricky like that.
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"In my long life of seventy-eight years," said the sagelike Rev. J.
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock Robert Digges Wimberly 1912
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Still, when he came to know me a little better, he lowered the tone of his sagelike maxims, and even appeared to be rather afraid of my chaffing humour, against the shafts of which he knew he was defenceless.
My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848
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But Mr. Ames also wanted to give George a sagelike quality.
NYT > Global Home By JEREMY W. PETERS 2011
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