high-minded

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That dynamic may partly account for why other high-minded millennial businesses haven’t fared well.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The opera offers a look at how the Civil War ended with high-minded statesmanship.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

I want to be very high-minded about this.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025

I wonder if he’d be so high-minded then!

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende