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- noun Plural form of
world .
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Examples
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Because you, of all people on all worlds, and I use the term people loosely, and I grip the term worlds tightly, know that I will never vouchsafe or divulge.
Self-Destruction, Vol. 1 James Greer 2011
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There must then be in the universe, which is in thermal equilibrium as a whole and therefore dead, here and there relatively small regions of the size of our galaxy (which we call worlds), which during the relatively short time of eons deviate significantly from thermal equilibrium.
The First Quantum Cosmologist Sean 2008
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The force by which he called the worlds into being, and upholds them in it, exists in no creature.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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There's also an implied duality in all of their games which populates Trico's trailer as well - an impression that to exist in their worlds is to never be completely alone, whatever your present circumstance may be.
Poll Results! SVGL 2009
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Alternate history is a type of genre fiction consisting of stories set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world, changing one major event and progressing down a different path.
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Haydn's point is that we must always be willing to build new worlds from the remains of the old, which allows director Rodula Gaitanou to set the opera in the wake of some unspecified ecological disaster.
L'Isola Disabitata – review Tim Ashley 2010
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They're also almost exclusively built within worlds that seem to exist unto themselves.
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The beauty of these worlds is that through the characters that inhabit them we can often see the best of the human spirit coming to the fore and we are inspired by the lengths that they will go to in the name of either what is right, or for love.
MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009
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I can't help but think that the more electronic society becomes, the more people, and especially younger ones, live in worlds, if not exactly artificial, then ones far removed from the "real" one.
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But what do skeptics do in worlds of magic, aliens, and other matters fantastic?
Planet-x.com.au » When Keeping It Skeptical In Science Fiction Goes Wrong – Overmind … 2010
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