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It is another example of hubris preceding a fall.hubris = excessive pride and confidence
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Her hubris led to the collapse of the company.hubris = excessive confidence
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When one political party dominates, there is increased danger of hubris from its leadership.hubris = excessive pride and confidence
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Many argue that we paid the price for entering Iraq with hubris.hubris = excessive confidence or arrogance
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And I was about to pay the ultimate price for my hubris. (source)
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Eighteen years after the event, I now recognize that I suffered from hubris, perhaps, and an appalling innocence, certainly; but I wasn't suicidal. (source)hubris = excessive confidence
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"What was the fight over?" "Let me see if I can remember the list." He ticked his fingers. "Vengeance. Lust. Hubris. Greed. Power. What have I forgotten? Ah yes, vanity, and pique." (source)Hubris = excessive pride, arrogance, or confidence
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I paid a young and hubristic warlock to summon it for me. (source)hubristic = excessively confident or arrogant
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Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not. (source)Hubris = excessive confidence or arrogance
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"Our analysis is that that is hubristic," the Chairman said, snorting.† (source)
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Hubris: a vocabulary word that had featured prominently on my pretests though it hadn't shown up on the tests proper. (source)
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My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. (source)
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I watched crimson clouds move between the lesser spires half a kilometer below and I thought about hubris. (source)
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The O.C. Bible was denounced as a work produced by "the hubris of reason." (source)
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How could he have been guilty of such hubris? (source)
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In a great blur of snow and silvery glass the building's roof—that marvel of late nineteenth-century hubris, enclosing the greatest volume of unobstructed space in history—collapsed to the floor below. (source)
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