worthy
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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
In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute made the Navier-Stokes equation one of the seven problems worthy of a million-dollar bounty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Give him a year of focus and he’d perfect the thousands of folds required to make a paper samurai worthy of gold at the Origami Olympiad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
He later outfitted his island escape with a Balinese-style villa and bungalows, creating a private getaway worthy of a Hollywood mogul.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
With no knowledge of our plans for the day, I still decided to wear an outfit worthy of Mitra's coolness.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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 worthies of Westeros vow their loyalty to Rhaenyra as royal successor.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
Other worthies such as Adam and the Ants and James Ingram were shut down in this category.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
Their work gradually added members to the Hall, culminating in a second committee to add a batch of worthies in 2006.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2020
Around about him everywhere lay the dead worthies of Boston.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
"Nothing is worthier than human life, specifically young life."
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
The irony is that Pacino did several worthier turns after his Oscar win: “The Insider,” “Donnie Brasco,” even “Glengarry Glen Ross” from the same year, 1992, is better: the definitive Ricky Roma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
Extensive development work is being conducted to give old clothes and textiles a worthier end.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
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
I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella’s reproach.
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
“Summer of Soul’s” win was one of the worthiest of the night, and Questlove proceeded to give one of the evening’s most beautiful speeches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
It is why Hall was deemed the worthiest of Olympic champions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 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
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