Sagacious vs Saga - What's the difference?
sagacious | saga |
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
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An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
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As an adjective sagacious
is having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.As a noun saga is
an Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.As a proper noun Saga is
saga Prefecture - a prefecture in the Western island, Kyushu, Japan.sagacious
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(en noun)Blackburn 0-4 Man City, passage=Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}