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But, police say, thieves who arrived at the church under the cover of darkness last month likely saw the artwork as representing something more worldly: quick cash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Mr. Kidd contends that the dons’ wartime service accounted for their worldly cachet and influence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

She says she is at peace with the fact all her worldly possessions fit in a bedroom that is no more than 12ft long, by eight feet wide.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Besides the city's highbrow cultural offerings, its status as a centre of congress and diplomacy also helps attract a wealthy and worldly clientele.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

She tried to see him through Aunty Ujus eyes, a man of wonders, a man of worldly excitements, but she could not.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Deep learning -- machine learning's wiser and worldlier relative -- can digest larger quantities of information to make more nuanced decisions.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll talked at length on Tuesday about how Lynch, at 33, seems like a much worldlier, wiser, and mature person than in his previous incarnation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2019

It’s the point of lots of teen shows, and lots of the actual lives of teens, this desire to be older, freer, smarter, worldlier.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2019

“I didn’t grow up as a voracious reader. James Baldwin was recommended to me by a girlfriend, who was a little older than me, more mature, worldlier, smarter, more attractive,” he says, with a laugh.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2019

Scholarius would intrust the State to the Holy Virgin; but Constantine, with a worldlier inspiration, adheres to the craft held by Kings immemorially.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

Tell her that if you’re right about that, at the time you were dealing with shame and fear, and felt your older sister was the worldliest person you could turn to.

From Slate ● May 2, 2021

And there’s no denying that when she sings, from a wildly diverse song list, she’s as polished and inventive as the worldliest cabaret artist.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2010

And Macbeth is the worldliest of Shakespeare's tragic heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bawdy belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all and translated with unexpurgated wit by Classicist William Arrowsmith.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had been friends almost from boyhood, and the very worldliest of men can feel the bitterness of that isolation in which the "turn of life" too frequently commences.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever