humbling experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhumblingandexperience
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humbling
adjective
uk/ˈhʌm.bəl.ɪŋ/us/ˈhʌm.bəl.ɪŋ/
causing someone to understand that they are not as important or special as ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofhumblingandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Reading the reports of our referees was often ahumblingexperience, and an example of what it means to be a conscientious member of the scientific community.
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He was thus hearkening back to earlier colonial times, in keeping with hishumblingexperienceof having lost an assembly seat to a tavern keeper for want of campaigning.
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It has been ahumblingexperiencetoday to listen to so many good speakers.
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I find that it is a remarkable andhumblingexperience.
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It is ahumblingexperienceto talk to them about the ways in which their lives have been affected.
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He began by saying substantially that to take part in a debate on this subject was a veryhumblingexperience.
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It is ahumblingexperienceto understand the dramatic changes that have taken place in our countryside in the past three decades.
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Therefore, to follow him is ahumblingexperienceas well as a pleasure.
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It is a heartening and almosthumblingexperienceto see how earnestly they try to do the right thing.
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Participating in the debate is ahumblingexperience, because many contributions have been excellent in so many different ways.
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The dedication and devotion of the staff at that school must be seen to be believed and visiting the school is ahumblingexperience.
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He also has a great experience of education and perhaps sometimes it is a veryhumblingexperience.
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Listening to it has been ahumblingexperience.
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It was ahumblingexperienceto go to all their homes.
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It is ahumblingexperiencesimply to sit and meet such people.
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It was an emotional andhumblingexperienceto see the survivors march past, and it drew our attention once again to the debt that we owe them.
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I found it ahumblingexperience.
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It is a salutary discipline and ahumblingexperiencefrom the point of view of a back bencher who struggles with a mass of paper from week to week.
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It is ahumblingexperience.
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It was a veryhumblingexperience.
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