embarrassment

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Recent Examples of embarrassment The OGs avoided what would have been an embarrassment — for them and maybe for the NBA — by besting the Rising Stars team of non-All Stars, 42-35, in game 2. Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025 The tone was unmistakable: middle-manager embarrassment. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025 This isn’t just about saving influencers from embarrassment. Paige Musto, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 The energetic big man tends to hand out the embarrassments to his opponents. Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for embarrassment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embarrassment
Noun
  • Unlike his Western European counterparts, who waver between moral grandstanding and strategic confusion, Duda has taken the only approach that actually strengthens European security: full alignment with American leadership.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Each stanza reflects the confusion, horror and uncertainty that of the battle to keep Fort McHenry — and thus the City of Baltimore — from falling into British hands.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In Court Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Thursday, March 6th ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Show Run In Protest Of Trump’s ‘Purge’ Despite these obstacles, female founders demonstrate remarkable resilience and innovation.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Trump, much like Putin, sees Ukraine as an inconvenience, an obstacle, something that should be grateful to even have a seat at the table.
    Illia Ponomarenko, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gathering at Scripps Research’s third annual Pandemic Preparedness Symposium last week, researchers working in virology and chemistry did not bother to debate whether or not H5N1 avian influenza will clear this rapidly shrinking hurdle.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Today, these hurdles are now compounded by the circumstances of a mediatized, globalized present in which artworks are readily circulated and recontextualized online—made hyper-visible through social media and simultaneously flattened by the internet’s immediacy.
    Fabiola Iza, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In a sport where losses far outnumber wins, success requires learning to embrace discomfort and grow stronger from each challenge.
    Samantha Bergin, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • As for the backlash from other family members, Hughes says the OP shouldn't take responsibility for their discomfort.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This medication should not be used on pregnant or lactating animals, or animals with urinary, stomach or intestinal obstructions, high blood pressure or hyperthyroidism.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Rosario faces 20 years on the obstruction charge and five years for lying to the FBI.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • However, the romantic narrative is punctuated by subtle moments of unease, each barely perceptible on its own but which, taken together, build into something rather more sinister.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • More than a year later, the campus remains in a state of bewildered unease.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Although improvements and breakthroughs are being made constantly, systems that are accessible today suffer from low fault tolerance, high rates of error caused by qubits decaying out of their quantum state, and extreme sensitivity to interference.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • An investigation was launched, and a felony warrant for custodial interference was issued, Othram said in a news release.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Embarrassment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embarrassment. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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