ego
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The backstage world of a small regional theater—crowded with ego, activity and illusion—provides rich material for the comic novelist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
In some regards this narrator, a husband and father, is Mr. Lerner’s most mature alter ego, but he often seems like the same schlemiel as the feckless grad student in “Leaving the Atocha Station.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
“I think it’s rare to find somebody who does the work without their ego involved,” Coletti said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
Impulsivity and ego, after all, are the enemies of sound financial management.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
For now, what he saw strutting around the shell house and lounging in the doorway was plenty of ego and not much humility.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing ego
"Of Mice and Men"
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