civilized
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“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
As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
And he declared the area to be an "innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the country".
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
The education of any civilized gentleman in those days used to go through three stages, page, squire, knight, and at any rate the Wart had been through the first two of these.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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