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civilized

[siv-uh-lahyzd] / ˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd /


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In any other part of civilized society, rifling through someone else’s diary is considered an outrageous invasion of privacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

“She was such a civilized, cultural person,” Stasevska says of her grandmother, adding that she taught her grandkids everything she knew about her home country.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

They settled on House No. 2, which also appeared civilized but in a less unsavory location.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Instead, he embraced the manly duty of the “great civilized nations of the present day” to ensure that the countries of the Western Hemisphere remain “stable, orderly, and prosperous.”

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

Perhaps I had been living civilized for so long that the hard-earned reflexes I’d picked up in Tarbean were starting to fade.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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