noble

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

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

The intentions are noble and the themes are handled with admirable complexity, but the writing is sluggish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

“The noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“You have a noble hand, boy! I see danger, and love, and wonders. Dark places, and great glories.”

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

“Magnificence,” murmured Reznak mo Reznak, “we cannot know that these great nobles mean to join your enemies. More like they are simply making for their estates in the hills.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The nobler the cause, the nastier the graft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

Then everyone cheered or bayed or neighed or trumpeted or clapped its wings and the royal pair stood looking solemn and a little shy, but all the nobler for their shyness.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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

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

Crossing the plain they met Akhilleus’ ghost, Patroklos and Antilokhos, then Aias, noblest of Danaans after Akhilleus in strength and beauty.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer