How to Use hubris in a Sentence
hubris
noun
- His failure was brought on by his hubris.
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But hubris seemed to get the better of this team again.
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San Antonio Express-News,
16 Mar. 2018
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Achilles has his heel and his hubris to go along with his great strength.
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Michael Ordoña,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2023
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This hubris is the root cause of the dire problems now facing our seas.
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CNN,
14 June 2019
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There’s a hubris in finding fault for the sake of finding fault.
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Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2021
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The Cold War has ended, but this kind of hubris remains.
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Patrick Iber,
New Republic,
30 Oct. 2017
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At the height of her hubris, Emily sneaks her fork over to my plate and steals a potato.
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Lucas Daprile,
cleveland,
27 Dec. 2022
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No character on the show more vividly skewers the hubris of the 1%.
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Rey Mashayekhi,
Fortune,
12 Aug. 2019
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Thanks to my hubris, what was supposed to be a half hour of heating time dragged on.
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Soleil Ho,
SFChronicle.com,
21 Sep. 2020
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But there's a lot of hubris that continues to be attached to Putin and his view of the war right now.
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CBS News,
26 Feb. 2023
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Those who still believe in democracy must bury the hubris that caused the old world to fail.
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Tom McTague,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2022
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Those nations that remain should have seen enough to know the dangers of hubris, though.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
29 June 2018
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This is a bell-jar comedy about mankind trapped in its own hubris.
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Armond White,
National Review,
23 Feb. 2022
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But, throughout the book, Schwartzel warns of the risks of such imperial hubris.
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Jane Hu,
The New Yorker,
12 Sep. 2022
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The hubris was eclipsed only by the sinking of the Titanic three months later.
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Chris Pomorski,
Curbed,
26 Apr. 2021
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Fortunately, an item on the next page of the menu rescued me from my own spicy hubris.
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Andy Staples,
SI.com,
30 June 2017
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The war in Afghanistan has been defined in part by muddled thinking, hubris about what the U.S. can achieve and an endless...
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WSJ,
16 Apr. 2019
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The hubris of adults trying to protect their power, at the expense of victims, came with a price.
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Ann Killion,
SFChronicle.com,
6 Nov. 2019
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He’s lost everything because of his hubris and his pride and his ego.
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Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2023
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His sin was more of hubris and arrogance than of lost money.
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Neil Senturia,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
16 Apr. 2018
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The story involves money and hubris and risk, with a human toll.
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Elise Young,
Bloomberg.com,
5 Mar. 2018
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Nobody is coming to teach us lessons about our hubris, and there is no appealing the laws of physics.
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Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
4 Sep. 2021
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Even some Democrats echo that point, warning their party against hubris.
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NBC News,
4 June 2018
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To those from other specialties, this broad claim might smack of hubris.
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Fortune,
26 Nov. 2019
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Yet even opposition politicians ought to be wary of the Supreme Court’s hubris.
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The Economist,
28 Mar. 2018
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The hubris of this discourse and its presumptions about the state of the race make for some bleak comedy in hindsight.
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Osita Nwanevu,
The New Republic,
14 Sep. 2020
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While two Activision studios worked hard to make the graphics crisp and new, there's some hubris here.
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Harold Goldberg,
chicagotribune.com,
13 July 2018
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Their story, outlined here for the first time, depicts a team that became the victim of its own hubris.
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Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas News,
3 Feb. 2020
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Of course, all of this hubris catches up to Fessy sooner than later.
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Kyndall Cunningham,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2021
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The naivete that stems from a mix of inexperience and hubris once again hobbled him here.
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James Hohmann,
Washington Post,
25 May 2018
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