worldly
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She says she is at peace with the fact all her worldly possessions fit in a bedroom that is no more than 12ft long, by eight feet wide.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Smith conformed to the type of the absent-minded professor, but he was worldly enough to unmask the East India Co., a hybrid sovereign ruler and monopolistic business enterprise, as a misgoverned money pit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lugging suitcases across the border after packing up in Pakistan, Afghans are returning home with their worldly possessions but often lack one key item to restart their lives: an identity card.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The most surprising part might just be that America’s most worldly coach is now drawing inspiration from U.S. sports history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
At sixteen I am worldly by some people’s standards, and by anyone’s I’m devoted.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Deep learning -- machine learning's wiser and worldlier relative -- can digest larger quantities of information to make more nuanced decisions.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
Rather than lean into the innocence latent in her beautifully airy tone, Morley played Pamina refreshingly against type, turning the princess into a worldlier foil for her new friend, Papageno.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll talked at length on Tuesday about how Lynch, at 33, seems like a much worldlier, wiser, and mature person than in his previous incarnation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
There is hardly a glimpse, though, of what kind of world a worldlier Michelangelo might have made.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
A worldlier woman would not have been so shocked; but he had never desired less crystalline transparency of mind—less exquisite whiteness of soul, for Nan.
From Name and Fame A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
Tell her that if you’re right about that, at the time you were dealing with shame and fear, and felt your older sister was the worldliest person you could turn to.
From Slate ● May 2, 2021
And there’s no denying that when she sings, from a wildly diverse song list, she’s as polished and inventive as the worldliest cabaret artist.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2010
Great Morning is a tribute from the worldliest of the artistic Sitwells to the most Arcadian period that any Englishman can remember: the last years of the peace that ended in August 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
A belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
If there is one pure spot in a man's heart—oven the very worldliest of men—it is usually his boyish first love.
From Mistress and Maid by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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