man of the world
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Back in the early 1980s, Moreno Ocampo wasn’t an urbane 70-year-old man of the world, but a young, very green attorney who’d never prosecuted a single case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
“He was becoming a man of the world as a young guy,” Colangelo said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Phoenix.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
He’s a man of the world, of humanity, he says.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2017
Lucas the producer, a man of the world, is a man of the word.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2016
It was a temptation to leap into clear space now, but he was a man of the world and he could walk away, and wait.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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