worldview
Americannoun
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worldviews
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of worldview
First recorded in 1845–50; translation of German Weltanschauung
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But in other ways his worldview seems largely unchanged from the Taliban's position 25 years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
In Episode 1, you’ll hear how Gorsuch’s worldview was shaped by his iconoclastic mother, his reaction to life on a liberal college campus, and by young conservative movements of the 1980s.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
In their worldview, a family’s shrinking purchasing power is primarily evidence of bad character.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
It isn’t a principle that arises equally from any given worldview or religion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
If you won't take my word for it and have no vested interest in broadening your worldview, here's the most important takeaway: Iran is not pronounced i-RAN; it's pronounced e-RON.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Where much democracy research documents what people say they believe, ethnography examines how and why political worldviews take shape within the full context of daily experiences, relationships, and social environments.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The two men start from sharply different worldviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
"Cooperation and action for security has no party colours, no political emotions, no worldviews or opinions," defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said at the signing.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
“We should try to be more empathetic to people with different worldviews because you never really know what those people are going through,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
These wartime allies stood for opposing worldviews and hostile ideologies, and their recent triumph over Nazism made them less, not more, open to compromise.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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