embarrassment
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Everyone in power at the club cannot look at that 36-team table and not feel an enormous sense of embarrassment.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
“This is an embarrassment, by all means,” said James Moore, emeritus engineering professor at USC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Instead these cases have become an embarrassment for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
She told the news outlet that embarrassment prevented her from reporting the attack immediately.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Maggie and Kate were simply too scared of punishment or embarrassment, to admit the truth.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Mr. Gates’s reputation has been battered in recent years by personal and public embarrassments, but he does a service to come forward and is right in his warnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
That’s not only because judges are fining more lawyers for their laziness, but because the publicity about these embarrassments has been inescapable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The moves by Khanna and Veasy put Republicans in an awkward spot, but they are likely just symbolic embarrassments.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2025
What if further embarrassments emerge from US court cases about Jeffrey Epstein?
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
They both had enough embarrassments; not everything needed calling out.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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