wise up to
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When do you suppose our major universities will wise up to the notion of serving as a free farm club for the NFL and NBA?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
By 1992, however, lawmakers began to wise up to the predatory recruitment practices and the virtually useless degrees these colleges were offering students.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2018
All who want candor are going to have to wise up to what mainstream journalism is actually offering them and seek out voices willing to be more frank.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
As outsiders wise up to the company’s underlying problems, raising more cash may be a struggle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2018
It is not our duty to be wise above that which is written; but it is our duty to be wise up to that which is written: otherwise it was written in vain.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
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