humble
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Aaron Howlett says he had the pleasure of meeting Sir Tom 10 years ago, and found him "incredibly humble"
From BBC β Sep. 23, 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
Every year on Mexican Independence Day, the paper celebrates its humble beginnings when Lozano Sr. launched the paper from a modest office in downtown Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 16, 2026
“I’ve always been a loner and I’ve always wanted to see Africa, so I took leave from my humble newspaper job and a generous loan from my aunt and here I am.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
For investors still betting on the next Keytruda, it means a humbler arithmetic.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 6, 2026
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 might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Dishwashers occupy one of the humblest rungs, but they are among the most badly needed.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 12, 2026
His abhorrent behavior is sadly too common across the restaurant industry, from the finest dining to the humblest street stalls.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 13, 2026
Will, the humblest member of our group of five heroes, learned last episode that he is dying of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
From New York Times β Mar. 22, 2024
Simple, ignoble, under-appreciated green cabbage: It has got to be one of the most unpretentious and humblest in all of the Cruciferae family, if not among the entire vegetable kingdom.
From Salon β Mar. 14, 2024
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
In response, she said she was "very flattered", adding: "Those early days were quite something, and to know that moment meant something to you all these years on truly humbles me."
From BBC β Dec. 17, 2025
Matthew 23: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 26, 2025
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 pattern of evolutionary causality is a web of astonishing complexity; the incompleteness of our understanding humbles us.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
She "looked suitably humbled and tearful" as she emerged, he said, going on to praise the stage direction.
From BBC β Sep. 13, 2026
Chancellor Friedrich Merz sounded both humbled and defiant when he addressed his party’s defeat on Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 7, 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
They were both surprised and humbled by my generosity.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
"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
For me, parenting is a humbling experience daily and I felt it was something about this that tapped into a vulnerability and a rawness.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 2026
Birk said: "To have met Gracie again, full of life, is incredibly humbling."
From BBC β Aug. 28, 2026
It’s very humbling to see that level of support for me and women’s basketball in general.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 10, 2026
He’d also sold his idea for a nonfiction book about race and identity to a New York publisher, which for someone who worshipped books as he did felt like an enormous and humbling boon.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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