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high-minded

[hahy-mahyn-did] / ˈhaɪˈmaɪn dɪd /


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That dynamic may partly account for why other high-minded millennial businesses haven’t fared well.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

Or a group of high-minded, dutiful, quite-conscientious California voters?

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

I want to be very high-minded about this.

From Slate Nov. 4, 2025

I was so afraid she was going to get high-minded on me again.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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