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Examples
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In “Toward European Unity”, written after the war, he explained that “a Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today.”
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One day, she will not remember us … That day is hopefully a long way off but in order to make these last years as good and as worth-while, she needs us.
Mom… « Mudpuddle 2010
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“Not paying college athletes does too much good for too many people to throw it out so that a few uber-gifted people can find it more worth-while to finish college rather than going pro early.”
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Erstwhile worth-while fun and stunts seemed no longer worth while; and it was a torment to listen to the insipidities and stupidities of women, to the pompous, arrogant sayings of the little half-baked men.
Chapter 29 2010
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One day, she will not remember us … That day is hopefully a long way off but in order to make these last years as good and as worth-while, she needs us.
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I go to comics shops and see little or nothing worth-while, IMO.
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Not paying college athletes does too much good for too many people to throw it out so that a few uber-gifted people can find it more worth-while to finish college rather than going pro early.
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Oakland had to be made into a worth-while city, and that was what he intended to do.
Chapter XVII 2010
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Moreover, they felt that anything worth-while from the past could be acquired or replicated, and often, in the process, greatly improved.
Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations 2010
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Yet one climatic emotional scene makes the film worth-while.
Karin Badt: Women Directors are Rare (For Now): An Interview with Julie Bertuccelli at Cannes 2010
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