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Examples
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All candidates have surrogates, but none has anyone so selfeffacing, so knowledgeable or so willing to do the nasty jobs as RFK was.
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I remember being so taken with her, this tall, striking, rather elegant but selfeffacing woman.
Happy Birthday Caryl Churchill Melissa Silverstein 2008
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But Grant was the sort of undersized, hardworking, selfeffacing individual that other men felt compelled to take care of.
'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848' 2008
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They were taught how to be forgettable and selfeffacing before they came to this duty.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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They were taught how to be forgettable and selfeffacing before they came to this duty.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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- candid, honest and often selfeffacing - are regarded by many scholars as one of the best books ever written by an American president.
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