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When the UConn coach turned down a $70-million job offer to come to L.A., it might have been humiliating for the storied franchise but it ignited a rebirth.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025

Failure to pass the bill would have been humiliating for McCarthy.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023

“It becomes a way of articulating what might in the past have been humiliating and uncomfortable and discouraging,” Dr. Dweck said.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

If it were any other Power Five football conference, the initial impression would have been humiliating, devastating and everlasting.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2019

And viewed by the light of her subsequent success it is hard now to realize the boldness of an undertaking whose consequences, had it failed, must have been humiliating and disastrous.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha