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In exceptional cases, disseminating footage that’s hard to stomach serves a noble objective.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

The influence is permanently recorded in both the depth at which particles entered the regolith and the isotopic signatures of noble gases trapped there.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

She continued: “He was a true and noble gentleman, wrapped up in my dream leading man. I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

“Greetings, noble parents. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

But the judicial bodies, known as parlements, along with the nobles and clergy—who would have been exempt from taxation—resisted his plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

The earliest on the program, “Jefferson and Liberty” from 1800, included the verse: “Here strangers from thousand shores/Compell’d by tyranny to roam;/Shall find, amidst abundant stores,/A nobler and a happier home.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Whether teetotaling, temperance or virgin, they’re just drinks, after all — though I suppose their intricacy beyond fresh-squeezed juice demands we label them something nobler.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024

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

The Shaper remains, though now there are nobler courts where he might sing.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

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

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