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Recent Examples of humble pie
Get The Recipe Buttermilk Pie The origins of this humble pie date back to the Depression, when Southern cooks showed their resourcefulness by making a lot out of a little.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
The city is also a pilgrimage site for pizza lovers, who will find everything from old-school joints that only sling margherita and marinara pizzas to next-gen pizzerias that elevate the humble pie to gourmet heights.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
District Attorney [Alvin] Bragg and the prosecutorial team here, while eating a slice of humble pie, are displaying the highest level of integrity in moving to dismiss the charges.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2024
Not a terrible bit of humble pie to taste, but the fact also remains, despite what some would like to believe, that the election result was no landslide but really only a slight lurch to the right.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
The city is also a pilgrimage site for pizza lovers, who will find everything from old-school joints that only sling margherita and marinara pizzas to next-gen pizzerias that elevate the humble pie to gourmet heights.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
District Attorney [Alvin] Bragg and the prosecutorial team here, while eating a slice of humble pie, are displaying the highest level of integrity in moving to dismiss the charges.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2024
Not a terrible bit of humble pie to taste, but the fact also remains, despite what some would like to believe, that the election result was no landslide but really only a slight lurch to the right.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humble pie
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The Carolina Panthers pulled off the upset of the week with a three-point win over the Dallas Cowboys.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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The Bills are looking to rebound from their first loss of the season last week, while the Falcons are hoping to pull off an upset to move to 3-2 coming out of the bye week.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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But otherwise the climate, through its perturbations, has maintained conditions conducive to animal life for nearly a half-billion years.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Quantum machines of today are prone to errors, have a restricted size range, and are sensitive to perturbations in their surrounding environment.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Swisher will play Kenzie, a local Knoxville influencer who has been hired to represent Happy’s Place for their upcoming social media marketing campaign and all of it is much to Bobbie’s (McEntire) chagrin.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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In the cold and austere German winter (a far cry from Dakar’s physical and cultural warmth), an anxious Nourou acts up outside a hotel and is accosted by a Polish security guard, setting off a minor chain reaction in which Maja intervenes on his behalf, much to his chagrin.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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Because of that, diabetes distress has been linked to other serious mental health issues.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Family members of the victims filed defamation and emotional distress lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas, where Jones’ Infowars talk show is based.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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Hints of unease momentarily heightened as the Spartans — deliberate and layered — went to work.—
Ira Gorawara,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Insurance executives told the FT that the industry lacks the capacity to handle the kind of systemic, large-scale losses AI models could trigger, reflecting the sector’s broader unease about underwriting the unprecedented risks posed by generative AI providers.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Most people can manage any discomfort with Tylenol.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
15 Oct. 2025
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The musician recalls feeling that discomfort as far back as middle school.—
James Factora,
Them.,
15 Oct. 2025
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Alcaraz and Sinner both skipped the Canadian Open in August, to the dismay of its organizers.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Having spent the day expressing dismay over immigration stats and joy over the latest Space X launch, Musk had nothing to say about Mondays’ suit.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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But agitation, redness, and dry flakiness aren’t unheard of.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
9 Oct. 2025
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When there was labor unrest, the coal town churches tended to side with the companies, advising miners against strikes or agitation.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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