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as in arrogance
an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
only a person of unparalleled presumptuousness would assert that she knows all there is to know about words
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as in gall
shameless boldness
he found that a certain amount of presumptuousness could get you in trouble, but it could also get you into places where you normally weren't allowed
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But what unfolded in the White House on Friday was a striking departure—an unprecedented display of hostility, arrogance, and political theater that raises serious concerns about America's global leadership.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025 -
Reportedly, Tulip mastermind Charles Hegel (played with perfect measure of condescending arrogance by Josh Brener) has died in Kenya, and took with him all the necessary passwords needed to access the accounts of his many investors.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
28 Feb. 2025
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Our study also identified other risks, including low blood pressure, sleep problems, headaches, formation of kidney stones, and gall bladder disease and diseases associated with the bile ducts.—
Ziyad Al-Aly,
The Conversation,
22 Jan. 2025
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Coordinators have rarely had the gall to try to run it in those spots, but the Lions did and scored.—
Alec Lewis,
The Athletic,
1 Jan. 2025
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This condition is what philosopher Charles Mills, speaking of the American context, labeled epistemological ignorance—a deliberate unknowing, an insistence on the myth of white superiority, of white exceptionalism.—
Christine Winter,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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And so Tyla’s comments were also taken as an insinuation of superiority over Black people.—
Funmi Fetto,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Neuropathy is a debilitating type of pain caused by injury or damage to nerves.—
Amy Brownstein, MS, RDN,
Verywell Health,
7 Mar. 2025
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Connecting with others who have MS has proved 'really cathartic' Scout assists with Blair’s balance and eases her nerves about being in public.—
Erin Jensen,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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The presumption is that LLMs tend to favor certain word choices, sentence structures, and linguistic patterns that differ subtly from typical human writing.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
3 Mar. 2025
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In the United States, there is a presumption that public information belongs to the public.—
Josh Ocampo,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Aries is also a Cardinal Fire sign, known for its audacity and desire to initiate new things, even if that means ruffling a few feathers along the way.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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The Court could react by smacking down the President’s audacity.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Presumptuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumptuousness. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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