noble

To stand for public office and to lead a public life is a noble calling and don't underestimate the courage it takes to hold, in public, views that divide.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Argentina: “Hear the sound of broken chains/See noble equality enthroned.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Retiring at 60 is noble, but your Medicare does not kick in until you are 65.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

It combined the Greek prefix eu—“good”—with genesis: “good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

English lands were handed over the Norman nobles.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

In the Middle Ages, William the Conqueror took control of England's land and granted parts of it to loyal nobles, who leased it to others for a fixed term.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Peasants burned châteaux and records of the dues they owed local nobles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Any marriage “choice” between nobles is an illusion.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024

True, the crowds were not as wealthy as those at the Horse and Four, but they appreciated me in a way the nobles never had.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

It would be a valuable prize for the country and for him, an honor far nobler than the Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

Known for inventing the fast break, McLendon made a far nobler contribution to sports by accelerating the acceptance of minorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Shakespeare in the Park canceled its Thursday and Friday performances of “Hamlet,” saying ’tis not nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of wretched air.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

It’s ridiculous how entertaining “Air” is given that it’s about shoes, even if it works overtime to persuade you that it’s also about other, nobler truths, too.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

Somewhere along the way she'd got the idea that broke people led richer lives than everybody else, that they were nobler or more intelligent.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Indeed, it can create the noblest magic known to all mankind.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

Gold is famously known as the noblest of all metals because it has little or no reaction when encountering other substances; a property that makes it perfect for wedding rings and coins.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

But that movie, for all its missteps, looks increasingly like the noblest of failures, a genuinely nervy, conceptually ambitious folly from which the director has now retreated to this movie’s safer, smugger climes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

The Chinese philosopher Confucius reputedly said, “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

They came, all the best and noblest, to join the company.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton