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Noun
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Does being a girl’s girl mean forfeiting your shot at love in deference to a friend’s indecision?—
Lizzie Hyman,
People.com,
3 July 2025 -
When Sexton took to the Tennessee House floor in April 2014, his colleagues showed him deference because of his banking experience, said former Rep. Craig Fitzhugh, a rural West Tennessee Democrat and the minority leader at the time, who sponsored the original payday lending legislation in 1997.—
Adam Friedman,
ProPublica,
26 June 2025
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And great live music was provided by Grammy nominees Midland, whose musicianship was only exceeded by their humility and charm.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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He’s already shown leadership, humility and patience through injuries and adversity.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Standing next to a record player in a sports jacket and turtleneck, Kaufman, with a kind of bulging meekness, a glisteningly gleeful timidity, puts the needle on the record.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2025
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Russia has not budged one inch from its demand for total capitulation and subservience from Kyiv, and has only increased its missile barrage on Ukrainian cities.—
Trudy Rubin,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2025
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In other ways, this passive social robot design aligns with paternalistic standards that link assistance to subservience.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 June 2025
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Before the month comes to a close, Mercury will station retrograde in Leo, activating your 12th house of secrets, surrender and your subconscious, bringing up old memories or inhibitions that have been clouding your clarity.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had agreed to declare and wage war on Japan three months after the surrender of Nazi Germany.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Too many have chosen the politics of non-engagement, which is at best a hair’s breadth away from acquiescence or complicity.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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This long history of the expansion of executive power, often with the acquiescence of the courts, to violate and restrict civil liberties in the name of national security has ultimately brought us to our current situation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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This experience taught me the important of blending modesty with resolve to make tough calls while honoring the team’s contributions.—
Wayne Yu,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The lace veils are another old tradition within the Catholic church and worn to symbolize modesty and respect.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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This belief system views pluralism as weakness, compromise as betrayal, and coexistence as capitulation.—
Art Jipson,
The Conversation,
8 July 2025
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The Dodgers were studiously vague in last week’s capitulation, er, announcement of $1 million in good will payments.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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