worthies

plural of worthy

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Noun
  • Yesterday, following the official welcome at the king’s Palace Square, the visiting Japanese dignitaries visited City Hall and Parliament, ending the day with a traditional state banquet at the Palace of Laeken.
    Marta Martínez Tato, Vanity Fair, 24 June 2026
  • One album has pictures with everyone from stars like Christian Pulisic, Mohamed Salah and James Rodriguez to foreign dignitaries like former Hungary President Viktor Orban, to friends alike.
    Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • These speakers join previously announced eminences from Amazon, Calm, Contextual AI, CoreWeave, Databricks, DataSnipper, Exelon, Glean, Google, Intuit, Rivian, and Serve Robotics.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
  • It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are plenty of notables on the Directing ballot, too.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 June 2026
  • The week after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and a delegation of 45 other Chicago notables met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican, another Chicago politician got to meet the pope too.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • While buildings and monuments safeguard the past, McGee believes the future of Kansas City jazz ultimately rests with the musicians themselves.
    J.M. Banks June 29, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
  • Within a few years of Euromaidan, the Ukrainian government had outlawed Soviet symbols, including monuments to Lenin.
    Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Eximious had a royal warrant, a seal of approval issued to those supplying goods to royal personages, from then-Prince Charles.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time.
    Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Based on those figures, Honsal said 731 dogs remain unaccounted for.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Kids will create origami figures, write wishes on them and hang them on bamboo.
    Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Brick pillars are embedded with bronze plaques listing the players and manager from each of the franchise’s three World Series championship teams.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
  • Personalized treatments are built around three pillars—energetic renewal, conscious longevity, and stress management—and integrated with the landscape and architecture of the property and the regional cuisine.
    Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • Agassi, Nadal, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, and Jim Courier are among the tennis luminaries participating in the Djokovic documentary.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 June 2026
  • Peppered throughout the book are anecdotes from founding and existing farms and vendors, market shoppers, local politicians and other Yolo County luminaries.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
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“Worthies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthies. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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