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Making Shakespeare’s plays accessible is a noble goal, but there are other ways to go about this beyond modernizing the text and diluting its lyrical beauty and nuance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Conservative shadow housing secretary Katie Lam said it was a "noble aim" to protect UK democracy from foreign influence but changes proposed by the government had not always been produced with "proper care and attention".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Law is supposed to be a noble profession, devoted to truth and justice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Florence and its surroundings move Muratov profoundly, especially because this region best expresses the 15th-century Renaissance, or Quattrocento, in which he senses “the beating of a great heart pulsing with pure and noble blood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

It was tall and slim and noble, a rich brown, its leaves yellow-gold.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

"We need a long process of changing the mindset" of the nobles, he said during the enormous funeral of one of them close to the capital, to which 4,000 guests, including atas, were invited.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

English lands were handed over the Norman nobles.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The king instructed a government minister to effectively delete Andrew from a document called the Roll of the Peerage, a public record registering nobles in England, Scotland and Ireland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Guards, motionless as statues, held their places while richly clad nobles and their ladies swirled around them.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

He had chosen a country over us, as my mother had said, because it was nobler to take care of hundreds than one, or hundreds and one.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

The book’s hero is an upbeat, morally upright counselor named Ben Frost, who activated the boys’ noblest impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

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

We must face up to the ugliest aspects of our history and also to its noblest and most inspiring words and deeds.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023

He took part in the great Calydonian Hunt, when the King of Calydon called upon the noblest in Greece to help him kill the terrible boar which was laying waste his country.

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