embarrassed
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Starters this decade have averaged less than 4 ⅔ innings and about 74 pitches per game in the postseason, an outing that would have embarrassed their predecessors from generations ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Writer Nora Ephron wasn’t embarrassed when in 2002 she declared in the New Yorker, “The hot pastrami sandwich served at Langer’s Delicatessen in downtown Los Angeles is the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
“If one woman is less embarrassed about her own mastectomy, that’s a win,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The kids, an afterthought, come off as genuine—muttering adolescents who are embarrassed to be looked at, much less talked to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Maybe it was because I wasn’t necessarily supposed to know about Elliot’s parents, or maybe it was because I’d just been too embarrassed to do it.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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