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After hearing parents’ concerns at the meeting, school board member Scott Schmerelson, whose San Fernando Valley board district includes Reed Middle School, described the situation is “kind of embarrassing” and said the new process should be postponed a year.

But if that effort fell short on a secret ballot, he’d suffer an embarrassing setback to his stature just when it’s at a new peak.

She bowed out before any primary votes were cast, avoiding an embarrassing loss in her home state.

Other up-and-coming swing-state Democrats are famous for taking after Barack Obama, the apotheosis of the elite American success aesthetic, to a sometimes embarrassing degree.

For Hamas, the fatwa represents an embarrassing and potentially damaging critique, particularly as the group often justifies its attacks on Israel through religious arguments to garner support from Arab and Muslim communities.