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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

“To be cringe about it, the ’90s babydoll dress wasn’t designed for the male gaze,” says my friend Rachel, a keen observer of Gen X fashion then and now.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Despite Jane Wickline’s delightfully awkward cringe and Sarah Sherman’s delectable insanity, only one “Saturday Night Live” cast member picks up votes this round.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

I turned toward the front door, but then he began scratching scratching scratching his butter knife against his toast, the sound making me cringe inside.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

But on the eve of her 22nd birthday, Selines — who speaks in the same honeyed, dulcet tones she sings in — admits that she cringes at the sound of her own teen yearning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

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

Then, as Sasha careens toward him, he cringes and climbs onto his seat.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

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

As a nurse attending births in the 1980s, Sojobi said, she cringed when she observed patients being hustled to the operating room if they hadn’t given birth by a set time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

He cringed at her feet all the way back to the Van Sandtford farm.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Anyone beyond the land of candlepin bowling and cringing at red clam chowder thought they had a better shot at finishing at the bottom of the standings than reaching the Super Bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

These lies are so dumb and easy to disprove that the onetime criminal defense attorney in me is cringing.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2024

Even some liberal economists are cringing a bit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Fortunately, the class had generated enough trust that we could express ourselves freely: cringing at some passages and laughing at others, agreeing on the book’s importance while allowing for divergent assessments of its literary merit.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

Still cringing away from the crow, I look up.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth