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These insights into Alice’s personality don’t excuse her short fuse, but they do mark her as worthy of redemption.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

‘Why are mule deer deemed less worthy than cougars? Don’t we teach our children that all animals have a purpose on our planet?’ writes an L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The production is being promoted as “challenging the status quo of how commercial theater interacts with nonprofit institutions,” a worthy goal, if a possibly quixotic one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Back then, much of the excitement was bound up in the prospect of America having its first Black president, but Obama ultimately proved himself to be worthy of it.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

He received nothing from Fortune but the opportunity, for as the citizens of Syracuse were oppressed, they elected him as their captain, and from that rank he proved himself worthy of becoming their prince.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

He seems energised when he is shaking hands and talking to the public, sometimes appearing to enjoy that more than meeting the long lines of civic worthies on official visits.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2023

The answer, my worthies, is that it is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

From Salon ● May 14, 2022

Other worthies such as Adam and the Ants and James Ingram were shut down in this category.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2022

When John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963, he was on his way to deliver a speech to the assembled worthies of the city.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2018

The master and his sons laughed as he wiped his face, but the twenty dollars went to new boots and a brocade coat like he’d seen some worthies wear in D.C.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Is not pole position – generally the fastest racing of the weekend – worthier of a point than fastest race lap, which is purely tactical?

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

Extensive development work is being conducted to give old clothes and textiles a worthier end.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

It’s become a cliché to praise a filmmaker for loving his characters, as if doing so made said characters worthier of our interest, or if humanism were an inherent artistic virtue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Through the miracle of technology, transhumanists believe that the human species must orchestrate its obsolescence so that some worthier, digitized human form might emerge, phoenix-like from its shadow.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023

No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favoured; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Among his worthiest financial prescriptions is to marry well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

However while Musk and Altman have been focused on each trying to prove themselves the worthiest custodians of AI in court, their rivals have raced ahead.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

CHANG: Almodóvar may have been the race’s token international nominee, but his exquisitely crafted “Talk to Her” ensured he was also the worthiest of the lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

But they also distract from a larger question about whether, even under the best conditions, trying to fulfill Musk’s highest aspirations for Twitter is the worthiest use of his time.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

Though it was a forbidden love, still he felt it to be the worthiest thing about him, and the purest, and the deepest.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks