unassuming
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Honoring these unassuming entities is the main focus of a new community exhibit, titled “Our Empire,” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
It’s unassuming at first due to its sheer simplicity.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
It is currently a large, unassuming patch of farmland in East Ayrshire - but within years it could be one of the largest artificial intelligence data centres on Earth.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Outwardly unassuming and privately acerbic, Martin Gilmour teaches at a second-rate English university that, in his words, “tended to attract the stupid rich.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
One more year of being quiet, unassuming Bri who stays to herself as her friends get their glow-ups.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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