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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

I want to be very high-minded about this.

From Slate Nov. 4, 2025

While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, gods and goddesses—theirs, with its focus on everyday individuals and events, can be seen as prosaic.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

It threatens to drown out their own more high-minded projects.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2025

As Scythe Faraday had said, the schemers only prevailed when the more high-minded body of the Scythedom allowed.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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