worldly

"I just love reading these kinds of fantasy books because the real world is a little bit terrible and I love to escape into a fantasyland of fairies and anything other worldly," Amy says.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

For the third time in nine years, she’d driven to the city from Austin, Texas, her worldly possessions stuffed into her parents’ 2012 Cadillac SUV and her sights set on becoming a star.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Maria soon after learns that her father, from whom she has been estranged for decades, has been murdered in an Alabama beach town, leaving her his house and worldly goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

Rachel is worldly and tiresome in my opinion, so I stared out the window, where the view was better.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In retrospect, Robert Freeman’s autumnal, artfully distorted photograph was an entirely apt image for a worldlier, darker, more grown-up Beatles record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

Mindful that Beit Shemesh’s population growth has also included worldlier English-speaking ultra-Orthodox, she also promised to hire English speakers in the schools and city offices to make their adjustments easier to life in Israel.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018

She said they were no worldlier than other girls.

From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet for no single moment did Evelyn think that she was the worldliest of the four nuns.

From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore