humiliate
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And on the street, when you see people begging, when you hand money to them, do not humiliate them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"They'd love to humiliate the Castros and get one of the original revolutionaries from 1959 behind bars. But the strategic value of that is questionable."
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
As Rue muses in a voiceover, she’s beautiful, directionless and “so desperate for attention she’s willing to humiliate herself.”
From Salon ● May 4, 2026
Well, everyone in show business has to humiliate themselves sometimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
They’d all seemed to have abruptly forgotten that I was still the same girl they’d tried to humiliate, over and over again.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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Critics say Philips doesn't just challenge those beliefs - he humiliates the people who hold them.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Earlier in the film, Patrick also publicly humiliates himself for Kat by singing Frankie Valli's song, "Can't Take My Eyes off You" in front of the whole school.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
The league says its operations manual strictly prohibits bullying and hazing, which is defined as behavior that “harms, intimidates, offends, degrades, threatens, or humiliates another person or creates a risk to their health or safety.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
And if the sight of me in neon Spandex humiliates my daughter someday — well, she’ll get over it.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018
My mother’s anger humiliates me; her words chafe my cheeks, and I am crying.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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Niederhoffer was devastated and humiliated, but he kept looking for patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Two months prior to Clarke's appointment, the national team had been humiliated in Kazakhstan.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He said the result showed "Nigel - who said he didn't want to be humiliated - maybe has been".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
I’ve oscillated wildly between thinking the U.S. will ride a host-nation bump to the semis and worrying they’ll be humiliated by Paraguay and soccer in this country will be canceled forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Who knew a second grader could understand what being humiliated feels like.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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The first post called Holmes “a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Before the humiliating collapse, Aschenbrenner’s fund had shown phenomenal returns of more than 1000% since its inception in 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Morocco is to co-host the 2030 World Cup and Moroccan Football chief Fouzi Lekjaa is one of the few to have publicly supported Infantino since the humiliating climbdown.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the hours after the humiliating public disclosure, Roh told friends she wondered whether she had been too selfish and inconsiderate of her husband’s emotions, according to local media reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Claire turned forward and crossed her arms, annoyed that she’d let herself be talked into such a humiliating demonstration.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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