Some may argue that rebuilding the World Trade Center site with even taller skyscrapers is an act of hubris.

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"Bloomberg's third term was a great mistake, and this entire city is paying the price for that act of hubris, " he said.

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In an act of hubris that should serve as a cautionary tale for other health IT companies, Epocrates decided to take advantage of the 2009 HITECH Act which subsidizes the purchase of electronic health records, by getting into the EHR business itself.

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The controversy engendered by that act of aesthetic hubris has never ended.

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Corporate crime at the C-level is an act of opportunity and hubris.

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Some Masters of the Universe have such rotten hubris, such selfish, self-aggrandizing drives they act like primitive warriors from a more violent time.

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