humble pie

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for humble pie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humble pie
Noun
  • Penalties were also a significant issue for the Bills, resulting in 11 infractions for 90 yards, which helped the Patriots breathe life into drives and contribute to the upset.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The Philadelphia Eagles and the Buffalo Bills were the only two unbeaten teams this season heading into Week 5 but both saw their unbeaten records on the season end on a weekend of upsets in the NFL.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Cowley has suffered financial losses, lost time, anxiety and emotional distress because of the data breach, according to the complaint.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
  • With presidential elections not scheduled until at least 2027, however, Chetouane said the country is currently avoiding idiosyncratic distress.
    Hugh Leask, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • News of the deaths ricocheted through the prison system, spreading fear and unease.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The university acknowledged receiving messages expressing unease about the event, which was organized by the campus's chapter.
    Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price , Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When asked about the overlap of Sosh-Lightsy’s firing and FIRE’s data showing MTSU students' discomfort expressing controversial ideas, Paulson said the law was likely on MTSU’s side in this case.
    Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, stand firm and push through this discomfort into the next, new chapter of your life.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is, to United’s dismay, a definite trend of players breaking out of Old Trafford and finding a new lease of life.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But what could have been an intricate, interwoven storytelling feat is instead one season's worth of resources spread thin between separate and stale plotlines, much to the dismay of fans eager to see the season that Covid had delayed by a year.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two days later, the Chiefs put aside the agitation and put up their best offensive outing in two years (and four days) for a 37-20 win against the Ravens.
    Sam McDowell October 3, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • So, would Hegel be shaking his beard in furious agitation?
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Humble pie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humble%20pie. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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