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  • Many argue that we paid the price for entering Iraq with hubris.
    hubris = excessive confidence or arrogance
  • And I was about to pay the ultimate price for my hubris.  (source)
  • 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
  • I paid a young and hubristic warlock to summon it for me.  (source)
    hubristic = excessively confident or arrogant
  • 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
  • "Our analysis is that that is hubristic," the Chairman said, snorting.†  (source)
  • Hubris: a vocabulary word that had featured prominently on my pretests though it hadn't shown up on the tests proper.  (source)
  • My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.  (source)
  • I watched crimson clouds move between the lesser spires half a kilometer below and I thought about hubris.  (source)
  • The O.C. Bible was denounced as a work produced by "the hubris of reason."  (source)
  • How could he have been guilty of such hubris?  (source)
  • 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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