worthies

plural of worthy

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Noun
  • After months of uncertainty, two dignitaries from rival lands have come forward to press their claims.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • During his first term, he was criticized for owning properties where foreign dignitaries and others hoping to curry his favor spent lavishly.
    Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 28 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
  • Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Adrien Brody, Hoda Kotb and Gayle King were among the other notables.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 June 2026
  • There are plenty of notables on the Directing ballot, too.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 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
  • Still, the pieces of ceiling trim dedicated to the pillars of courage and trust remained missing, a nod perhaps to the traits most easily lost when disaster strikes – and most needed to rebuild.
    Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • The only way to preserve our republic is to strengthen the pillars of our present with the mortar of our past.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • The band garnered the attention of indie luminaries, with the Silver Jews’ David Berman providing the liner notes to Pine Box.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • Silicon Valley luminaries such as Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind are eating at his table.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
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“Worthies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthies. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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