worldly

Example Sentences

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The document teaches Claude how to be a kind and worldly assistant, ready to help people who talk to it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

There are still financial tasks that have to be done for you after your death, like filing your last tax return and cleaning up your worldly possessions.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026

More than anything else, it offers further evidence that Musk is a lot dumber than he ought to be, given his immense worldly success.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

“The babies’ breathing,” he writes, “was impetuous, nervous, uneven, but the mothers’ slow worldly sighs, forceful and vaguely wise, got to me, straight to the heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

The Mollers managed, somehow, in spite of their worldly goods, to live fairly simply.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey