worthiness

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Recent Examples of worthiness The wellness leader has a three-step method that emphasizes clarity, worthiness, and taking action. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025 Worrying for France, Fitch's latest appraisal of France's credit-worthiness was the first of several rating reviews on the horizon. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025 The agency announced the penalty Friday, citing a 2024 midair emergency and failures to meet aircraft worthiness inspections. Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025 Villa Dora, for example, presents ‘Vigna del Vulcano’, another Lacryma Christi white wine and demonstrates impressive age worthiness. Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Manufacturing standards for air worthiness were developed. Anand Rao, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2025 The current arms-race dynamic means [the AI companies] cannot even think about worthiness. Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2025 But novels don’t need to prove their worthiness through their ability to cheer us up. Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worthiness
Noun
  • Packages with values of $800 or less, which were previously allowed to enter the United States duty-free, are now subject to a range of tariffs and fees.
    Kayla Steinberg, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025
  • So Spectrum now wants to encourage its customers to take advantage of those subscriptions, which the company says provides more than $125 per month in value, by launching a new Spectrum app store in its mobile app and on its website, which is meant to streamline that process.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Jets had a franchise-worst minus-10 net passing yards, as the 55 yards’ worth of sacks for Denver pulled New York, which got only 45 yards passing from Fields, into the red.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Reichman, a company veteran, has also seen his mandate shift as the company seeks to raise its stature globally and win over high-worth customers.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On Thursday, city leaders, friends, family and former colleagues spoke about the importance of Morrow’s work for the Black community and San Diego.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Barnett, a respected figure in the explosives industry, emphasized the importance of revisiting safety protocols in light of the incident.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The actress, who rose to fame for her iconic roles in beloved films such as Annie Hall, The First Wives Club, The Godfather, and many more, died in California, PEOPLE reported on Saturday.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The star rose to fame in the 1970s, thanks to her performance in Francis Ford Coppola’s first two Godfather films and her close collaborations with Woody Allen.
    Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Investigators believed that, during the procedures, Adame and Galaz — who allegedly presented themselves as specialists — injected Rajpaul with substances used by qualified cosmetic physicians but combined them with dangerous chemicals, ABC7 reported at the time.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The discovery could shed new light on the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up roughly a quarter of the universe.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • So far, the response has been strikingly muted given the eminence of the signatories.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 51-year-old Rajoelina first came to prominence as the leader of a transitional government following the 2009 coup that forced then-President Marc Ravalomanana to flee the country and lose power.
    NPR, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Machado’s prominence highlights the struggle for democratic rights and the broader regional implications of Venezuela’s crisis.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no feigned seriousness, no proclamations of honesty.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The system was elevated to ministerial status by Prime Minister Edi Rama to signal his seriousness in tackling corruption, and his commitment to institutionalizing advanced technologies.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Worthiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthiness. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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