hubris
Example Sentences
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And not just because one of the leading contestants torched himself and his political livelihood in a bonfire of hubris and stupidity.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
He’s likely to end up celebrating only his own decadence, poverty of spirit and enormous hubris.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
He shows that Greek tragedy does not turn on hubris but on misjudgment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Policymakers and private-sector actors should caution themselves against hubris.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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