humble
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"I had very limited resources. I didn't have any investors behind me. I come from very humble beginnings."
From BBC β Oct. 13, 2026
For instance, highlighting employees who weren’t involved can instead make the response seem promotional rather than humble.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 12, 2026
The latest example: This weekend’s follies in the NFC East, where a pair of victories were lost in baffling last-second fiascos that showed the humble limits of human function.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 12, 2026
How Steve Ballmer, the richest owner in sports, was caught dead to rights by a humble podcaster, and what lessons the media and public can take from courtside seats to the halls of power.
From Slate β Oct. 7, 2026
The circumstances leading to the change in Mr. Covey’s course toward me form an epoch in my humble history.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
Beijing has also set its sights on far humbler targets, Taiwanese officials say.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 20, 2026
This chafes against the restraint demanded by his current role, which has historically been carried out in humbler fashion.
From Slate β Jun. 11, 2026
For investors still betting on the next Keytruda, it means a humbler arithmetic.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 6, 2026
“Then our dreams became humbler, to liberate our own lands. Now it’s even less. We don’t want to liberate anything. We just want to stay home and not leave our homes,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 7, 2026
It ran half the length of the city and had become its most coveted real estate, never mind that much of it fell in humbler neighborhoods.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The Bible praises Moses as the humblest man on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 13, 2026
Throckmorton’s shuttering occurred in the era before the internet conferred immortality to even the humblest of establishments.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 27, 2024
Will, the humblest member of our group of five heroes, learned last episode that he is dying of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
From New York Times β Mar. 22, 2024
Hansons Auctioneers, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, said it was an "astonishing" price for "the humblest Christmas tree in the world".
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2023
Everyone was there, from Queen Warbeak and Log-a-Log to Cornflower and Silent Sam, down to the humblest mouse.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
In response, she said she was "very flattered", adding: "Those early days were quite something, and to know that moment meant something to you all these years on truly humbles me."
From BBC β Dec. 17, 2025
He has a flop with his film, “Big Top Pee-wee,” which humbles him.
From Salon β Jan. 30, 2025
The idea that I’ve had all this experience humbles me.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 9, 2024
“The game’s so hard and it humbles you so much, we’re taught and kind of trained to keep your eye on what’s in the present,” Counsell said.
From Washington Times β Sep. 27, 2023
"Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The Prime Minister wasn’t humbled by his close brush with electoral defeat.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
But Arsenal were humbled on the south coast as a well-drilled and clinical Brighton outfit beat them comfortably 3-0 to go third in the table.
From BBC β Sep. 19, 2026
I am humbled that you’d ask me for a third opinion.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 14, 2026
I'm "humbled that I'm getting to put Matthew back in cinema after six and a half years," he said.
From Barron's β Aug. 13, 2026
Yet he looked at me from beneath his red-checkered keffiyeh with eyes burning fiercely, refusing to be humbled by his age.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Duggan said the win was "extraordinary, unexpected and humbling".
From BBC β Oct. 15, 2026
Speaking to reporters after the game, coach Matt LaFleur called it “a humbling night.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 25, 2026
Its chair Grant Thorburn said the officers' deaths had "hit home hard" and that seeing the tributes and donations paid to them had been "humbling".
From BBC β Aug. 26, 2026
The fumble with the NFL was a humbling experience for Iger, who is a lifelong passionate sports fan.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 12, 2026
Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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