cringe
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The results of a recent survey from wealth-management platform Betterment are making America’s financial advisers cringe.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Social media users were also split, with one viewer writing that Meghan was "warm, gracious and a delight to watch" while another called Prince Harry's cameo appearance "cringe".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
He tried to get rid of something that still makes me cringe: Conan’s nipple dance.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Still, it’s a shame that for the first time in two and a half decades of cringe comedy, the guffaws feel forced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
I cringe through another mouthful of breaded eggplant.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
He drives a Ford pickup truck and cringes at needing a security detail, according to a person who knows him well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
With art at the moment, it’s so specific that sometimes it cringes me out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Bellamy says he now often cringes looking back at the enraged footballer, banning his own team from throwing their arms up in disgust as he was so prone to do.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
Everyone I know in Seattle specifically cringes when they hear that and I understand that that is a very strange characteristic!
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Charlie cringes, and then he recalls his mother’s words.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Like almost every parent, I cringed whenever my child or another player headed the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Daddy’s home,” someone said, and a nation cringed.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
The lead lawyer for Google "visibly cringed" when the specific share of ad revenue sent to Apple was revealed, according to Bloomberg.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2023
And I just cringed, because Jill and I, neither one of us would care if people took pictures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Skullface cringed as sharp dirty claws dug into his fur.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
“If you’re cringing about writing one performance review, imagine your manager who has to write 15 of them,” says executive coach Sabina Nawaz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Even some liberal economists are cringing a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Reading through these items, I confess, I had a difficult time not cringing.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2023
It’s the kind of achievement that the theater world likes to applaud, while perhaps also cringing at the fact that it has taken this long.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
I am cringing, literally, my entire body folding into itself.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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