worldly
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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
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
If Belarus' shock draw with Denmark was weird then the manner of Scotland's victory - and the quality of the goals scored - was other worldly.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
That isn’t the purpose of such worldly honors, healing wounds, but I suspect it’s often an effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
“I leave it to Pater Leoden to distribute the remainder of my worldly goods among the parish, as, being an immoral soul, I will have no further need of them.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
There is hardly a glimpse, though, of what kind of world a worldlier Michelangelo might have made.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
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
The American, loosed in the streets of Paris by night, however sees in himself another and a worldlier image.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
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 bawdy belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all and translated with unexpurgated wit by Classicist William Arrowsmith.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Macbeth is the worldliest of Shakespeare's tragic heroes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Cupples went on, with a twinkle in his eye that would have done credit to the worldliest of creatures.
From The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
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