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humbled

adjective as in reduced

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“There’s a virtue in getting older — you’ve been humbled so many times that you don’t mind being curious about learning new skills,” he says.

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He did not make his Test debut until the age of 31 - just before an Australia side in transition was famously humbled 3-1 on home soil in 2010-11 by Andrew Strauss' team.

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He was humbled but didn’t miss out completely.

This anthology left me humbled — and determined to double down on my commitment as a writer, a free thinker, a humanist.

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Labour, so long the victor of so many a south Wales political contest, humbled, pummelled, crushed - attracting just 11% of voters.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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