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worthy

[wur-thee] / ˈwɜr ði /


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"We're finalising an opponent worthy of Jake's return and look forward to sharing more in the coming weeks."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“We deserve leaders who support transgender people as whole people worthy of safety, dignity, and care,” the groups wrote.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Yair Lapid, now a member of Eisenkot's bloc, praised Herzog at the time as "a worthy and wonderful man who is always focused on the good of the country and the Jewish people".

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

That’s not to say that Anthropic will go down the same path, only that writing worthy intentions into an official document isn’t the same as writing them into stone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

There hadn’t been anyone worthy of sharing it with; nobody she had cared about enough, until now.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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 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

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

What’s worthier: the news story that matters now or the storytelling that pushes documentary filmmaking into the future?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

Another painting, from a third and much finer series known as the Scuola degli Schiavoni cycle, offers worthier compensation for the missing Ursula works.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

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

Soulfulness versus slickness is of the worthiest subjects in our increasingly AI-dominated age, and it’s already led to some true modern classics, from “Her” to “After Yang.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

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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