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Sage (σοφός) (philosophy)

Sophos (σοφός, plural sophoi) is the ancient Greek term for a wise man or sage, originally meaning skilled in a craft. Distinguished from sophistes (sophist) and philosophos (philosopher), it became the Stoic ideal of the fully wise person.

SAGE algorithm

The SAGE (space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization) algorithm generalizes EM by updating small parameter groups in turn, introduced by Fessler and Hero in 1994 and widely used in channel estimation.

Sage Elsesser

Sage Elsesser, also known as Navy Blue, is an American rapper, producer, professional skateboarder, and model born 1997 in Los Angeles. Known for Supreme's 2014 Cherry film, the Def Jam album Ways of Knowing, and the Knighthood trilogy ending with Sir Render (2026).

Sage Equity Investors

Sage Equity Investors is a private equity program of Los Angeles buyout firm Leonard Green & Partners, investing in single-asset continuation funds sponsored by third-party managers.

Sage Equity Investors Side-A

Sage Equity Investors Side-A is a Delaware private equity fund formed in 2024 and based in Los Angeles, managed by Leonard Green & Partners as part of its Sage program.

Sage Equity Investors-A

Sage Equity Investors-A is a Delaware private equity fund formed in 2024 by Leonard Green & Partners, part of a program that closed at over $3.6 billion.

Sage Equity Investors-N

Sage Equity Investors-N is a 2024 Delaware private equity fund in Los Angeles managed by Leonard Green & Partners, part of LGP's Sage continuation-fund program.

Sage Group

Sage Group is a British software company, founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1981, that develops accounting, payroll, and HR software for small and mid-sized businesses.

Sage Kotsenburg

Sage Kotsenburg (born 1993, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) is an American snowboarder from Park City, Utah, who won the first Olympic slopestyle gold and the first gold of Sochi 2014 with the Holy Crail 1620, then retired from contests at 24 for backcountry riding and films.

Sage Northcutt

Sage "Super" Northcutt (born 1996), American MMA fighter from Katy, Texas, karate prodigy with 77 youth world titles, ex-UFC (6-2), now ONE Championship, record 12-3.

Sage Products

Sage Products is a Cary, Illinois maker of disposable infection-prevention and patient-safety products for hospitals, founded in 1971 by Vince Foglia and Paul Hills and acquired by Stryker in 2016.

SAGE Publishing journal programme

SAGE Publishing journal programme: the peer-reviewed journal portfolio of Sage, founded 1965 by Sara Miller McCune; over 1,440 journals, 200+ gold open access, 400 society partners, Sage Choice hybrid APCs, and the Sage Journals platform.

Sage Stallone

Sage Moonblood Stallone (1976-2012), American actor, director, and film preservationist, eldest son of Sylvester Stallone and Sasha Czack; played Rocky Jr. in Rocky V, co-founded Grindhouse Releasing, and directed Vic (2006).

Sage Steele

Sage Steele (born 1972) is an American broadcaster, ESPN SportsCenter anchor and NBA Countdown host 2007-2023, who left after settling a free-speech lawsuit over 2021 vaccine-mandate podcast comments, and now hosts The Sage Steele Show.

Sage the Gemini

Sage the Gemini (Dominic Wynn Woods, b. 1992), Bay Area rapper-producer from Fairfield, California, HBK Gang member behind 2013 hits Gas Pedal and Red Nose and Flo Rida's G.D.F.R.; known for self-produced party rap, Republic and Atlantic deals.

SageMath

SageMath, formerly Sage, is a free, open-source mathematics software system started in 2005 by William Stein as an alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB.

Sagen Maddalena

Sagen Maddalena (born 1993), Groveland, California native, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit sergeant and rifle shooter; two-time Olympian, silver medalist in women's 50m rifle three positions at Paris 2024, 2023 world champion and record holder in the women's team event.

SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey

The SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey (SLUGGS) was an astronomical survey of 25 nearby early-type galaxies and their globular clusters, led from Swinburne University from 2006.

Saggarâtum

Saggarâtum was a district capital of the Old Babylonian kingdom of Mari, on the Ḫabur near its confluence with the Euphrates, known from the Mari tablets.

Sagging (fashion)

Sagging (fashion): pants worn below the waist exposing underwear, traced to beltless US prison uniforms, spread by hip-hop in the late 1980s and 1990s, later targeted by largely repealed anti-sagging ordinances.

Sagi Gidali

Sagi Gidali is an Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneur who co-founded SaferVPN and Perimeter 81 with Amit Bareket; Check Point acquired Perimeter 81 for about $490 million in 2023.

Sagid Murtazaliyev

Sagid Murtazaliyev (Сагид Магомедович Муртазалиев), born 1974, Dagestani freestyle wrestler; 2000 Sydney Olympic gold at 97 kg for Russia, 1999 world and 2000 European champion; competed for Ukraine at Atlanta 1996.

Sagimet Biosciences

Sagimet Biosciences Inc., formerly 3-V Biosciences, is a San Mateo, California biopharmaceutical company that develops fatty acid synthase inhibitors; its lead oral drug denifanstat targets MASH and acne.

Sagina (organism)

Sagina (pearlwort), a genus of small Caryophyllaceae herbs named by Linnaeus in 1753, type S. procumbens; about 30-37 species, mainly north-temperate and arctic; includes horticultural Irish/Scotch moss (S. subulata).

Sagina (सगीना)

Sagina (सगीना) is a 1974 Hindi drama by Tapan Sinha, a colour remake of his Bengali Sagina Mahato (1970), starring Dilip Kumar as tea-estate union leader Sagina Mahato with Saira Banu; music by S.D. Burman; a commercial failure.

Sagina Mahato

Sagina Mahato (সাগিনা মাহাতো) is a 1970 Bengali drama directed by Tapan Sinha, starring Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu as tea-garden labor leaders in Darjeeling.

Saginaw Bay

Saginaw Bay, a large shallow embayment of western Lake Huron in Michigan fed by the Saginaw River, known for its historic lumber era, walleye fishery, and Area of Concern contamination and restoration.

Saginaw County

Saginaw County, Michigan: county in Mid-Michigan, seat Saginaw, organized 1835 after Lewis Cass's 1822 proclamation. Population 190,124 (2020); manufacturing-led economy and presidential bellwether county.

Saginaw, Michigan

Saginaw, Michigan: county seat of Saginaw County in the Great Lakes Bay Region; council-manager city of about 44,000 (2020), former lumber and salt boomtown, now a health care and medical education center.

Sagiri (character)

Yamada Asaemon Sagiri (山田浅ェ門 佐切) is the female lead of Yuji Kaku's manga Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, a 17-year-old executioner ranked 12th in Tameshi Itto-ryu, Gabimaru's partner, voiced by Yumiri Hanamori.