worldview
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Definition of worldview
— called also weltanschauung
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College is a time for meeting new people, opening up your worldview, taking in new experiences, reading (please, for the love of God, read), and generally experiencing the last years of a life untainted by taxes and a daily job. — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, "The Ars Technica Back to School buying guide," 13 Aug. 2018 For that second kind of viewer, when the facts fly in the face of your worldview, that can be unsettling. — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, "Shepard Smith on Fox News opinion hosts: 'We serve different masters'," 16 Mar. 2018 Claiming that a woman is certainly a gold digger reaffirms a worldview pleasing to those who’d like to believe that men are the ones with the real power, and, if a woman ever exerts power, it’s been generously bestowed on her by a man. — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, "Kamala Harris Is Already Being Called a Prostitute," 29 Jan. 2019 The progressive politics of Creek are Trojan horsed in the sitcom format, through its working-class characters, their relationships, and its gentle worldview, in which the people are flawed and human but ultimately good, and undeniably valued. — Bridget Read, Vogue, "How Dan Levy Made the Funniest Show on TV," 16 Jan. 2019 Unfortunately, none of this makes up for a worldview that blends the laziest leftist clichés with absurd Islamist fictions. — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, "Will Imran Khan Turn Pakistan Into an Islamic Welfare State?," 12 July 2018 In other words, certain things have to be true, or have to be believed, in order to sustain that worldview. — Sean Illing, Vox, "How the media should respond to Trump’s lies: State of the Union edition," 5 Feb. 2019 Chatbots trained on human data slide into racist diatribes, while A.I. hiring managers organically develop wildly sexist worldviews based on preexisting data. — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, "How 'Ex Machina' Foresaw the Weaponization of Data," 16 Jan. 2019 Dylan Black, the New Jersey high-school student who created the online petition, worries that the change threatens to further entrench in Americans’ minds a Eurocentric worldview. — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, "The Controversy Over Just How Much History AP World History Should Cover," 13 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'worldview.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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