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- verb Present participle of
wisen .
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Examples
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And the same people who voted for this bum are waking up and wisening up to all his hopey/changey rhetoric ...
Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed? 2009
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The other thing about Vlad is that he grows, from an immature punk in the first couple volumes -- books that captivated the teen me perfectly -- into the rapidly wisening exile that we meet in Jhegala.
Boing Boing 2009
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It's obvious that people that once supported Hillary are "wisening up" to the fact that she's acting like a child having a "tantrum" because things are not going the way that she was "so sure" would go.
Obama adds two superdelegates, one's a former Clinton backer 2008
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She is a little clumsy with men - almost an innocent, but wisening up.
All the Mad Men and all the Mad Women are having epiphanies 2008
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Anyway, good to know the athletes are wisening up.
Gymnasts and low-carb | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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SIMON: I think now, a lot of people are wisening up about what's happening when people get pets for holiday gifts.
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These people were confused to start with and in all honesty there probably aren't a lot of opporunities for their wisening.
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Looks like the Indian fashion industry is wisening up and looking at fashion from a purely business point of view.
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