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as in cosmopolitan
having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience
she returned from her year as an exchange student a much more worldly person
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as in mundane
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
preoccupied with worldly concerns
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Recent Examples of worldly
While this town certainly feels quaint, its worldly dishes, celebrated galleries, and specialty shops attract visitors in the South and beyond.
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Brennan Long, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
Concluding Thought Since a personal guarantee is a pledge of all one's worldly non-exempt assets to back the underlying loan, a personal guarantee is basically a financial noose that one puts their head into and then waits to see if the trapdoor opens.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
With offices in Miami and Lago Bracciano, Italy, designer Sam Robin brings a worldly perspective to her projects, which include residences, hotels, restaurants, and even private planes.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2025
As the park’s main gamekeeper, Muldoon can comprehend the mind of the dinosaurs, similarly to how the worldly archer picks up the way other cultures communicate with each other.
—Lisa Stardust, People.com, 2 July 2025
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Brennan Long, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
Concluding Thought Since a personal guarantee is a pledge of all one's worldly non-exempt assets to back the underlying loan, a personal guarantee is basically a financial noose that one puts their head into and then waits to see if the trapdoor opens.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
With offices in Miami and Lago Bracciano, Italy, designer Sam Robin brings a worldly perspective to her projects, which include residences, hotels, restaurants, and even private planes.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2025
As the park’s main gamekeeper, Muldoon can comprehend the mind of the dinosaurs, similarly to how the worldly archer picks up the way other cultures communicate with each other.
—Lisa Stardust, People.com, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worldly
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The cosmopolitan nature of the club has been clear.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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To highlight indie scenes and neighborhood venues amid Music City's vastly evolving growth toward becoming a cosmopolitan mainstream culture hub driven by the country and Americana's mainstream boom.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Other leaders showcased internal agent use cases that the company says will more efficiently accomplish mundane and repetitive tasks for store workers, corporate staff, Walmart software engineers, and brands and other companies that sell through Walmart’s physical and digital storefronts.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
24 July 2025
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Perhaps beginning with the popularity of the short-form-video app Vine, in the twenty-tens, the mundane or absurdist details of the physical world became fodder in real time for the best online content.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
23 July 2025
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What stands out most about the set is the classic hammered glass design of the dispensers and the ornate accents of the stand, which give everything a sophisticated, timeless feel.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
22 July 2025
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Private-equity firms and non-bank lenders have grown impressively over the last few decades due to substantial demand for their offerings from those sophisticated investors.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 July 2025
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By fusing spiritual and temporal power, the period’s absurd-seeming battles over mystical doctrine—was the blood truly present in the chalice, or merely indicated in it?—were inseparable from struggles for worldly authority.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The actors don’t visibly age, thereby reminding the audience of time’s passage; the characters themselves often exist in a temporal bubble, where Bart Simpson is forever in fourth grade and Bikini Bottom remains on the ocean floor.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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The airship will carry the same type of base station used in terrestrial cell towers (called 4G eNodeB/5G gNodeB), which will comply with global broadband standards, as overseen by the Third Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP.—
Maurizio Arseni,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 July 2025
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Without dominance in orbit, terrestrial forces would be deaf, blind, and largely immobile.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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But he’s been airing these issues in public all year, to the point where rumors ran rampant about his mental and physical stability.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Aug. 2025
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In fact, his fade gave off the air of a mental rather than a physical difficulty, reminiscent of last year, when his trainer Pletcher’s pulling him from the 2024 Triple Crown series after his 15th place showing in the Kentucky Derby.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The values of Superman’s earthly home extend to his heroics on an international stage.—
Samantha Baskind,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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With this caution in mind, what were St. Augustine’s views regarding earthly policy?—
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Worldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worldly. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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