wise men

Definition of wise mennext
plural of wise man

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wise men
Noun
  • Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • Landscapers place hundreds of native buckwheat, sages and other plants on top of the wildlife crossing.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Around that are various sages, including a Cleveland sage, along with California sagebrush and California buckwheat.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • In the last few years, Scandinavia has become the global center for all manner of uncanny cloud rock and ambient pop wonder, from the dreamy Danes to screw-pop savants like Smerz.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Several shams were designed by AD100 designers like Sarah Sherman Samuel and fabric savants like Scalamandre, which makes picking out just one or two among the robust selection of textures, shapes, and materials a lofty task.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • What this small copper artifact from Grave 3932 suggests is that the roots of that enduring technology stretch far deeper into Egypt’s past than scholars had recognized.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Some scholars suspect that his race was deliberately kept vague and note that, at the time, even those from other European countries like Italy or Spain would have been discriminated against by Brits.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Ruibal and Iglesias have challenged traditional ideas of masculinity with their clothes and appearance, suffering some blowback on social media and from local pundits.
    Colin Millar, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Various pundits were quick to point out that Bongino had said the quiet part out loud, undercutting not only his own credibility but that of the wider MAGA mediaverse.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
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