hubris
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"This started as an exercise in showing the world a hubris of economists who think they can forecast stuff that they actually have no clue about," Klement said.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
The smugness, arrogance and hubris in this city is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Quite the opposite is true for the new restoration of “The Crowd,” an undisputed masterpiece of the silent era and as cutting an indictment of American self-regard and hubris as ever was made.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Some of those are even remembered as the leaders who brought down great empires with their own hubris and egotism.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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