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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

It’s about overly noble characters, their stagy exchanges, the manicured squalor of the poor and, for the rich, an opulence that might have arrived courtesy of Wayfair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

Clearly, none of these noble specimens was likely to make an appearance at the nursery window.

From "The Unseen Guest" 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

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

He convened the Estates General—representing the nobles, the clergy and the commoners—to break the deadlock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

My life would have been nobler if I had followed Lio.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

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

This idea, part of Jefferson's legacy to America, written down in one of the country's noblest documents, was incompatible with the idea of legalized slavery.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry