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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alas, mythology usually relates that those who dare to challenge the gods pay a stiff price for their temerity .
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He was not hurt, so much as indignant that a woman he was beating should have the temerity to fight back.
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I became quite exercised when he had the temerity to ask us to leave the room for one of them.
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Many Republicans are exasperated at the vice-president's temerity to ask for all the votes to be counted.
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Or, very tentatively, and with much temerity , could Wheeler have been wrong?
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Their temerity was hardly less than that of painters who ignored the taboos imposed by convention, their dexterity even greater.
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With some temerity , therefore, it seems necessary to make at least a few observations.