worldly
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Lugging suitcases across the border after packing up in Pakistan, Afghans are returning home with their worldly possessions but often lack one key item to restart their lives: an identity card.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
That isn’t the purpose of such worldly honors, healing wounds, but I suspect it’s often an effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Much like the toilet which kept playing up during the Artemis II mission, this research reminds us even astronauts operating in other worldly conditions are still human.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
But we also know him as Ziggy Stardust, the alien rock star, or the elegant, worldly Thin White Duke.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
In this school Alba learned to eat boiled vegetables and burnt rice, to withstand the freezing courtyard, sing hymns, and give up worldly vanities except those in the realm of sports.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
Rather than lean into the innocence latent in her beautifully airy tone, Morley played Pamina refreshingly against type, turning the princess into a worldlier foil for her new friend, Papageno.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
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
Her best biographer, Richard B. Sewall, unpicked this legend in his 1974 study, from which a worldlier and more socialized figure emerged.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 14, 2017
This was a question requiring a worldlier woman than Paula long to hold in mind.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
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
Great Morning is a tribute from the worldliest of the artistic Sitwells to the most Arcadian period that any Englishman can remember: the last years of the peace that ended in August 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
A belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
"None of us, my dear young lady," cried he, "not the worldliest nor the wisest of us, can ever tell when a particular acquirement will be the key-stone of our future fortune."
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
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