1
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
Morrison is 32 now — older, wiser, a lot more worldly than the kid who got into trouble, ended up in court and left Old Trafford without fulfilling that rare potential.
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Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 6 June 2025
While this town certainly feels quaint, its worldly dishes, celebrated galleries, and specialty shops attract visitors in the South and beyond.
—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
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Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 6 June 2025
While this town certainly feels quaint, its worldly dishes, celebrated galleries, and specialty shops attract visitors in the South and beyond.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worldly
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The keyboardist and singer-songwriter began his career in bossa nova, but quickly took flight and developed a deeply personal, cosmopolitan musical language of his own.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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In 2025, the ninth festival edition celebrated the cosmopolitan spirit of Mexico City with an exceptional lineup of chefs joining the resort’s host chefs, Pablo Hildebrando and Mario Rodríguez.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The real big numbers on the expense side of the ledger is the mundane concrete and steel civil engineering needed to house the nuclear tech and the electrical gear that make up over half the budget.—
David Szondy
August 04,
New Atlas,
4 Aug. 2025
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To this end, experiences and interactions feel generic and mundane rather than novel and individualistic.—
Ab Gaur,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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In addition to his famous perpetual calendar, Klaus also developed split-second, world time, depth gauge, and other sophisticated mechanisms culminating in the Il Destriero Scafusia in 1993, then the world’s most complicated wristwatch.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
15 Aug. 2025
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Nearly three decades later, Daft Punk arguably upped the ante with its sophisticated synthesizer opus for the franchise’s second film, 2010’s Tron: Legacy, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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Without temporal intelligence, scale becomes noise.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The researchers used data from a suite of four NASA satellites to analyze changes in terrestrial water storage over the past 22 years.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
25 July 2025
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The Underground Carbon Crisis Mycorrhizal fungi form vast underground networks that connect and sustain over 90% of all terrestrial plant species, channelling nutrients, supporting food systems, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The study demonstrates that contemporary archaeology is not about hunting for treasure, but reading signs in the sediment and understanding relationships among all the surviving physical evidence, said Daniel Diffendale, postdoctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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Linkin Park reenters the general sales ranking at No. 85 and comes in one spot lower on the list of the top-selling physical titles.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Because his reality emerges from fiction, Musk is untethered from any sense of earthly constraints.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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Indulge in the earthly scents of Morocco and refresh your headspace with their Moroccan Hammam, or take an invigorating dip in the cold plunge to stimulate your mind and stimulate circulation in the body.—
Náosha Gregg,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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“Worldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worldly. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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