worthies

plural of worthy

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Noun
  • The presidency said the convoy was also carrying dignitaries including Vatican diplomat Andrés Carrascosa, European Union Ambassador Jekaterina Dorodnova and Italian Ambassador Giovanni Davoli.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Riefenstahl’s friendship with Hitler and other Nazi dignitaries was well documented during WWII.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That studio is one of many spaces, official and unofficial, cited throughout the film as meeting places where artists, activists, journalists, and other notables met, and where a wide variety of activities were fostered, sustained, financed, and brought to public attention.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Some notables have been added to the injury report.
    Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Federal parks and monuments would close, for example, and staff deemed to be essential — like Transportation Security Administration officers and air traffic controllers — must work without pay, Ryan wrote.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • National parks, museums, and monuments typically close, and hundreds of thousands of federal employees are placed on furlough.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This marked a slight increase on figures from August, during which time Moscow claimed to have downed 2,786 Ukrainian drones at an average rate of nearly 90 per day.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Dylan Cease, the talented but mercurial right-hander, will take the mound Wednesday afternoon with what figures to be a short leash.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Albert Lee The 81-year-old Englander has been making music since the 1950s, gaining a reputation as quite the guitar hero working alongside luminaries from a number of genres.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • What the film could mean for Sacramento West said the Esquire screening on Monday came together quickly, with invitations to local luminaries going out days before.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities said the building’s foundation pillars gave way while construction workers were laying down concrete.
    Britt Clennett, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Strategic pillars are scholarships and student investment; programmatic innovation and resources; talent discovery and development; research and advocacy; and institutional capacity building.
    Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Worthies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthies. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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