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sages

noun

plural of sage

as in scholars

a person of deep wisdom or learning the young prince made a pilgrimage to the sage, hoping to learn the meaning of life

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Recent Examples of sages Black sages have shown that Black rage will not be silenced; rather, it is directed toward creative expression. — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026 Unlike the majority of the Mishnah—the codification of the Jewish Oral Law—Pirkei Avot has very little Halakhic content and instead emphasizes general ethical matters conveyed through aphorisms attributed to ancient rabbinic sages. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026 Giant agaves, lomandra, aeoniums, aloes, blue grasses and sages covered the slope from the house to the pool. — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2026 With encouragement from Kincaid, Lee, 49, began by planting small sages that would grow quickly and help prevent erosion, since water, mulch and rain often ran down the hillside to the sidewalk. — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026 Find a hot, sunny spot in the garden for evergreen sages like Southern Living's 'Killer Cranberry', which is pictured here. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 May 2026 Planted in swaths on the hillside is a mix of lavenders, plus sages and other California natives. — Christine Lennon, Architectural Digest, 17 Feb. 2026 Long before neuroscience confirmed it, the sages understood that sustained outrage narrows perception, impairs judgment, and corrodes community. — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026 The various sages from each of Hyrule’s different races (Gerudo, Goron, Rito, and Zora) all have affecting backstories and differ substantially from their descendants, whom players know intimately from Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025

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scholars

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Emerging studies on leading AI models that have been specially trained by scholars to act as virtual Commanders-in-Chief, armed with massive arsenals of atomic arms, have been alarming.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

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