ego
Example Sentences
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Taxes are a complicated task and it shouldn’t hurt anyone’s ego to ask for help.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
McGuigan calls the brashness part of an "alter ego", suggesting Caroline is playing the part, but also sees a deeper link to the independence she has carved out.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 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
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
“Only that you didn’t want him to give you the solution. It would puncture your ego to have a machine do what you couldn’t. Did you ask him?” she shot at Bogert.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing ego
"Of Mice and Men"
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