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civilized

[siv-uh-lahyzd] / ˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd /


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“She was such a civilized, cultural person,” Stasevska says of her grandmother, adding that she taught her grandkids everything she knew about her home country.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Instead, he embraced the manly duty of the “great civilized nations of the present day” to ensure that the countries of the Western Hemisphere remain “stable, orderly, and prosperous.”

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

And he declared the area to be an "innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the country".

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Tylor and Robertson Smith agreed, however, that what Tylor called the “essential rationality of primitive peoples” linked the savage past and the civilized present.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

There was no doubt that Fowl was a danger to the civilized underworld.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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