ego
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Check your ego, part II: Stop playing the wrong set of tees and move up to a manageable yardage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Taxes are a complicated task and it shouldn’t hurt anyone’s ego to ask for help.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
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
Dan Levy on the cast of “Big Mistakes”: “In the casting process, I’m always very aware of social compatibility. I don’t really love an ego on set.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
He learned to see hope where a boy thought there was no hope, to see skill where skill was obscured by ego or by anxiety.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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