humble
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Still, he remains humble in the face of every reason not to be.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 27, 2026
At times, this makes the humble viewer feel a bit like a guinea pig in a focus group; the audience’s reactions are integral to measuring the film’s success.
From Salon β Sep. 19, 2026
The lyric is built almost entirely from humble, monosyllabic words: a warm smile, a soft cheek, a laugh that wrinkles the nose.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 18, 2026
Field described Parton as "genuine, humble, supportive and blisteringly funny" as she introduced a special performance by country singer Reba McEntire.
From BBC β Sep. 15, 2026
The winter of 1916–17 became known as the “turnip winter,” when that humble vegetable became the staple of many diets.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
On a humbler scale, Kail poetically marks the passage of time with a thickening palm tree.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 9, 2026
This chafes against the restraint demanded by his current role, which has historically been carried out in humbler fashion.
From Slate β Jun. 11, 2026
Still, the rewards that come with the new travel debit cards are much humbler than those of even the least generous credit cards from the same companies.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 5, 2025
Charles had petitioned Andrew to move into humbler accommodation and had even stopped paying for his private security to force his brother’s hand.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 30, 2025
It aroused no comment that thirty men of humbler rank—master workmen like Paul Revere the silversmith, Thomas Crafts the painter, or Chase the distiller—met at the Green Dragon.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Soon even the humblest burgh in the hinterland could lay claim to a flourishing pizzeria.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 9, 2026
And yes, don’t be shy about layering: a little sprinkle of grated parmesan on top of melted mozzarella or cheddar can elevate even the humblest frozen fry to dinner-party territory.
From Salon β Sep. 16, 2025
Hansons Auctioneers, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, said it was an "astonishing" price for "the humblest Christmas tree in the world".
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2023
Neither traditional sculpture nor painting, it conjured both, a monumental object made from the humblest materials.
From New York Times β Sep. 11, 2023
Everyone was there, from Queen Warbeak and Log-a-Log to Cornflower and Silent Sam, down to the humblest mouse.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The sprawling, splendiferous, aging metropolis is not an easy place to manage and it humbles all its would-be saviors.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 11, 2026
He has a flop with his film, “Big Top Pee-wee,” which humbles him.
From Salon β Jan. 30, 2025
“And when you are music director of the New York Philharmonic, you are part of the New York Philharmonic. And in a way that humbles us.”
From Seattle Times β Jun. 6, 2024
“The game’s so hard and it humbles you so much, we’re taught and kind of trained to keep your eye on what’s in the present,” Counsell said.
From Washington Times β Sep. 27, 2023
The pattern of evolutionary causality is a web of astonishing complexity; the incompleteness of our understanding humbles us.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
But after receiving several hundred reader responses, I have been very deeply humbled.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 28, 2026
But Arsenal were humbled on the south coast as a well-drilled and clinical Brighton outfit beat them comfortably 3-0 to go third in the table.
From BBC β Sep. 19, 2026
I am humbled that you’d ask me for a third opinion.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 14, 2026
I'm "humbled that I'm getting to put Matthew back in cinema after six and a half years," he said.
From Barron's β Aug. 13, 2026
Yet he looked at me from beneath his red-checkered keffiyeh with eyes burning fiercely, refusing to be humbled by his age.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
"Honestly, I've never known anything like it. You just do your job and don't think anything of it, but it's humbling," she said.
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
Considered a title threat, Oregon was coming off a humbling loss to Oklahoma State, which won a single game last year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
It was humbling to see how the AI got my friend to open up in a way that I hadn’t, and I recognized that its questions were much more helpful than my answers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 12, 2026
Birk said: "To have met Gracie again, full of life, is incredibly humbling."
From BBC β Aug. 28, 2026
It is one of the most humbling aspects of being human.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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