embarrassment

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Recent Examples of embarrassment When O’Brien brought up having to cut one of Scott’s bits from his late-night show years ago, the Severance star filled with embarrassment. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025 Social embarrassment, after all, is far more terrifying — and likely — than a zombie attack. Wash Westmoreland, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025 What’s more, experts have interpreted Sen. Bill Cassidy’s, R-La., recent comments about Kennedy partly as an effort to curb the secretary’s potentially problematic actions and shield Trump from embarrassment. Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025 But that doesn’t seem to be the purpose of the record, which leans more heavily into fan service — a treat for those who’ve stayed loyal (or at least neutral) as Drake suffered the past year’s cavalcade of embarrassments. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for embarrassment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embarrassment
Noun
  • Unlike his Western European counterparts, who waver between moral grandstanding and strategic confusion, Duda has taken the only approach that actually strengthens European security: full alignment with American leadership.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Each stanza reflects the confusion, horror and uncertainty that of the battle to keep Fort McHenry — and thus the City of Baltimore — from falling into British hands.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In Court Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Thursday, March 6th ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Show Run In Protest Of Trump’s ‘Purge’ Despite these obstacles, female founders demonstrate remarkable resilience and innovation.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Trump, much like Putin, sees Ukraine as an inconvenience, an obstacle, something that should be grateful to even have a seat at the table.
    Illia Ponomarenko, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gathering at Scripps Research’s third annual Pandemic Preparedness Symposium last week, researchers working in virology and chemistry did not bother to debate whether or not H5N1 avian influenza will clear this rapidly shrinking hurdle.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Today, these hurdles are now compounded by the circumstances of a mediatized, globalized present in which artworks are readily circulated and recontextualized online—made hyper-visible through social media and simultaneously flattened by the internet’s immediacy.
    Fabiola Iza, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That kind of discomfort makes for excellent cannon fodder for the midterms.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Discovering new information about ourselves may challenge our beliefs or habits, leading to discomfort.
    Andrew Geesbreght, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This medication should not be used on pregnant or lactating animals, or animals with urinary, stomach or intestinal obstructions, high blood pressure or hyperthyroidism.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Rosario faces 20 years on the obstruction charge and five years for lying to the FBI.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • However, the romantic narrative is punctuated by subtle moments of unease, each barely perceptible on its own but which, taken together, build into something rather more sinister.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • More than a year later, the campus remains in a state of bewildered unease.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • An investigation was launched, and a felony warrant for custodial interference was issued, Othram said in a news release.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Although improvements and breakthroughs are being made constantly, systems that are accessible today suffer from low fault tolerance, high rates of error caused by qubits decaying out of their quantum state, and extreme sensitivity to interference.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Embarrassment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embarrassment. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.

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