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The fall of Abalos and Cerdan -- two of Sanchez's closest allies -- has embarrassed a Sanchez who took power promising to clean up Spanish politics.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The suspect at the centre of the leak that has embarrassed the US and its allies has been named as Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

“He has embarrassed himself, the city and the mayor, and he is someone who should have known better. It’s shameful.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2021

The inquiry into the implosion of a payments company which was once worth $28 billion and hailed as a German success story has embarrassed the country’s governing centrist coalition.

From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2021

Love, once for all, solves that contradiction between them which, both in 160 theory and in practice, has embarrassed the world for so many ages.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir