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Dunner sagaciously managed the call-and-response qualities of the score, though his suave, controlled reading also seemed to glide past stray bursts of piquant personality in Still’s writing.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Critics like to write about Smith because it allows them to sagaciously read the tea leaves of fiction and society.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018

At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously "conservative," has seen fit to squelch such activities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Andre Maurois, for example, wrote of her "sober, elliptical" style and her "remarkable economy of means," added sagaciously: "The tone of Sagan fits our times."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Ah, yes, now I understand,” Luigi said sagaciously.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller