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Adjective
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Those words seemingly caused Tagovailoa to play timid in 2025.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026 -
His hope is to create a new incentive for these timid business leaders, by wiping out a quarter billion or more from their combined market cap.—
Kristin Stoller,
Fortune,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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At Tuskegee University's innovation center, located in a food-insecure neighborhood, students and community members come together to explore food systems and sustainable agriculture.—
Adam Stone,
USA Today,
18 Mar. 2026
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People want to care without feeling insecure about that.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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To strangers, Kay seemed demure, diffident, even shy, an impression her youthful appearance helped create.—
Charlotte Brooks,
Big Think,
13 Mar. 2026
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This small, diffident moment is one more reason to mourn his death.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Accommodating, which is unassertive and cooperative, prioritizes the needs and preferences of others over one’s own in order to maintain harmony.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Yet beneath what might seem a meek exterior lies a steely determination.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
14 Mar. 2026
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Some of the ire contributing to the unedifying scenes at full-time owed to just how meek Villa had been against the Premier League’s bottom team.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Maybe Yamamoto’s unassuming everyman act is just that good?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2026
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Otherwise, the Luma is physically the same unassuming and comfortable pair of smart glasses as the Luma Pro.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Later, the victims’ ashes were interred in a modest columbarium that the priest had built in a Catholic cemetery.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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The sixty-year-old Radić is known for understated structures ranging from the modest (a bus stop, an artist’s studio) to the major (performing art spaces, a winery).—
News Desk,
Artforum,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Self-doubting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-doubting. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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