ego
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While female curves and volumes offer her a traditional dressmaking structure, women in the present tense, ego and id, are not part of this vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
They are ruled by the territorialism of their ego more often than they are by love, and they might not even always be aware of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
As I wrote last year when this deal was first announced, and like most big-money mergers, what the participants typically bring to the table are boatloads of money, and ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
"It's a childish response from a man who has never grown up, who has an immense ego which takes him absolutely nowhere," Anne Wardrop, a 90-year-old retiree, told AFP of the name change.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Though I appreciate your attempt to appeal to my ego, Sikander, I'm not going to start a war to prove a point, to you or Belet or anyone."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
When asked by Fortune about the risk of human extinction, Altman said: "We all have a tremendous amount of responsibility, and cannot let egos or incentives for profit or anything else get in the way."
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
"In a business full of egos, she's stayed loyal to everyone around her and remained the most humble person you could ever meet," Peters says.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Why would people want to flee their egos?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Lorne that emerges is one with many superpowers: Discovering talent, yes, but also surviving the years and the weeks when it doesn’t launch — managing creative egos.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
More was at stake, much more, than the throbbing egos of two ambitious statesmen vying for personal honor.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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