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Maria soon after learns that her father, from whom she has been estranged for decades, has been murdered in an Alabama beach town, leaving her his house and worldly goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But, police say, thieves who arrived at the church under the cover of darkness last month likely saw the artwork as representing something more worldly: quick cash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

In college, my worldly roommate, her Exeter sophistication lapping my sheltered convent education, introduced me to the saccharin-infused Pepsi Light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I’d seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2017

“Take an Object” is a survey of worldlier, more externalized art-making by 20 post-Pollock artists from the United States and Europe, made between 1955 and the mid-70s.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015

His family was the better-to-do and the worldlier of the two.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

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

A belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Under the sway, in old Japan, Of silent cryptic trees, There is a shrine the worldliest Would near with bended knees.

From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice