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Like the Tech Right, these men see noble masculinity as the solution to most of society’s ills.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Nor is there anything inherently noble about making employees spend eight hours deciphering orders shouted through crackling speakers while the ice-cream machine is down and a small diplomatic crisis is unfolding in the PlayPlace.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

They held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life was to surpass all others, to strive to be the best in all things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yet, over the course of its exemplary 402-year life, this noble relic has suffered a 99% decline in its real value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

What a way that would be for the descendant of an ancient and noble family to die!

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Some nobles have tried to improve the atas' lot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

In the Middle Ages, William the Conqueror took control of England's land and granted parts of it to loyal nobles, who leased it to others for a fixed term.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Ironically, the nobles and clergy who had defied the king by upholding their privileges yielded these same privileges to the National Assembly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Justifying the multicultural casting in “Bridgerton,” a Regency-era fable, is simpler than explaining the presence of non-white nobles in Emperor Peter III’s Russia as depicted in “The Great.”

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2025

The ordinary Ayorthaians are talkative, but the nobles are not.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Still, she imposed what Norman Podhoretz called an “inordinate demand”: that Jews under Hitler be braver and nobler than ordinary people could be expected to be when murderers held all the power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The earliest on the program, “Jefferson and Liberty” from 1800, included the verse: “Here strangers from thousand shores/Compell’d by tyranny to roam;/Shall find, amidst abundant stores,/A nobler and a happier home.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Shakespeare in the Park canceled its Thursday and Friday performances of “Hamlet,” saying ’tis not nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of wretched air.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

It’s ridiculous how entertaining “Air” is given that it’s about shoes, even if it works overtime to persuade you that it’s also about other, nobler truths, too.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

The Greeks believed that studying music would produce better, more tolerant and nobler human beings.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The book’s hero is an upbeat, morally upright counselor named Ben Frost, who activated the boys’ noblest impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Indeed, it can create the noblest magic known to all mankind.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

Gold is famously known as the noblest of all metals because it has little or no reaction when encountering other substances; a property that makes it perfect for wedding rings and coins.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

But that movie, for all its missteps, looks increasingly like the noblest of failures, a genuinely nervy, conceptually ambitious folly from which the director has now retreated to this movie’s safer, smugger climes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Hrothgar went back to his high, carved chair, relinquishing the bowl to the noblest of his thanes, and sat like an old man listening inside his mind to the voices of his childhood.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner