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Conservative shadow housing secretary Katie Lam said it was a "noble aim" to protect UK democracy from foreign influence but changes proposed by the government had not always been produced with "proper care and attention".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

In the middle of the BioCharger, within the geometric, connected plates of glass, is a Tesla coil, which ionizes the surrounding 12 glass tubes that hold six noble gases, the gases in the earth’s atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Florence and its surroundings move Muratov profoundly, especially because this region best expresses the 15th-century Renaissance, or Quattrocento, in which he senses “the beating of a great heart pulsing with pure and noble blood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The world of “Lanterns” prefers to be bracingly honest about our false assumptions about heroism and whether the people we deem to be noble really are.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I arrived just as the children were climbing aboard this noble coach of polished ebony, if you don’t mind the poetical language. My muse seems to be back in full force.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Some nobles have tried to improve the atas' lot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

English lands were handed over the Norman nobles.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Members of Parliament and British nobles in kilts mingled with reality TV stars like Ubah Hassan of the “The Real Housewives of New York City” and Mary Holland Nader of “Love Thy Nader.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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

When the nobles appropriated the commons, they created a peasant class that had little choice but to work for the landowners.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Not so if you confess to streaming military thrillers while other, nobler souls are busy contemplating peace on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

This is not to imply that WBD, Paramount, NBCUniversal or Disney, which owns ABC, are any nobler than their tech-based competition.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023

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

Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although ‘they wouldn’t pay’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

The Chinese philosopher Confucius reputedly said, “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

We must face up to the ugliest aspects of our history and also to its noblest and most inspiring words and deeds.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023

My mother said to me once that suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee