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Getting out of credit-card debt faster is a worthy goal, but draining your emergency savings to do so can backfire.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Such an amen chorus, however wise and worthy, doesn’t seem to help Berry anticipate the scrutiny of more skeptical observers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The stand bearing his name was emblazoned with a 'CTID' - City 'Til I Die - mosaic, while the build-up to kick-off saw a display of fireworks and pyrotechnics worthy of several rock concerts.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

I don’t know why all films now seem to be either based on superhero comics or incredibly worthy dirges, hoping to win awards without the collateral damage of entertaining anyone en route.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

That she was worthy of my love, but I was not worthy of hers.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Mr. Bonds is as friendly as a whistling postman and, more than that, a baseball genius, according to testimonies from such worthies as Don Mattingly and Dusty Baker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

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

They almost certainly could have been put to work on worthier causes.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

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

From the truth about her mysterious marriage to suicidal thoughts, a kiss with Tupac and the joys of ayahuasca, here are the worthiest revelations from “Worthy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

“We insist on the need to bring about the necessary corrections in the legal system, and we will allow for an opportunity to achieve them with a broad consensus. That’s the worthiest goal there is.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

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