dignity
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“The Trump Administration, and President Donald J. Trump, should, therefore, be given the respect and dignity of acknowledgement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Mr Governor, my honour and dignity have already been ruined," she responds.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“It is better that we demonstrate our strength and dignity today and tell the world that we have won and that we are ending the war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
"We are mindful of the constitutional and legal obligation... to safeguard the life, health, dignity and security of persons in custody," the panel wrote.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The simple acts of everyday life, however, were closely connected with them and gained dignity from them as was not the case with any of the Greek gods except Demeter and Dionysus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, had numerous chances to take a stand for basic human dignities.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
“We continue to feel our lives are at risk and our patient’s rights and dignities are ignored,” Osborne wrote in the letter to the Department of Health.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2020
“Music helps us share ourselves, our dignities and sorrows, our hopes and joys. It allows to hear one another, to invite each other in. Music shows us that all of it matters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2019
But Smarsh’s story demonstrates an urgent truth of today’s unforgiving economy, that a college degree no longer unlocks the gates to the dignities of the middle class as it once did.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2017
But happening to look up at Mrs. Pocket as she sat reading her book of dignities after prescribing Bed as a sovereign remedy for baby, I thought—Well—No, I wouldn’t.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing dignity
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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