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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

If Belarus' shock draw with Denmark was weird then the manner of Scotland's victory - and the quality of the goals scored - was other worldly.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Although there is scarcely a reader of history unaware of the widely rumored affair between Edwina Mountbatten—the viceroy’s wife—and Jawaharlal Nehru, that most worldly of Indian anti-imperialists, Mr. Dalrymple repackages it with jaunty mischief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

To Kelson, it’s a reminder to savor what time we still have — and this may be his final worldly act.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

He still wore the semblance of his worldly body.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

“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

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

I don't think Granny understands her, or uncle Lovell Mingott either; they really think she's much worldlier and fonder of society than she is.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

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

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

"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