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cow·er·ing
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Cowering
of Cower
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cowering in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cowering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of cowering in a Sentence
No one is cowering in their homes because this is happening. Because this has been happening regularly for a long time, we want to take the society forward. We know we have a lot left to accomplish.
If team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room, afraid to come out to compete, instead, they're winning gold medals. America isn't afraid to compete.
What President Donald Trump doesn't understand is that we can think about not just ourselves, as individuals and our feelings and what we care about, but we can recognize there's actually this really existential threat against our democracy, our planet, our country right now, and instead of looking at it and cowering in fear, we're going to tackle it head on alongside whoever's on our team right now, knowing that there's going to be lots of fights ahead when we do have, hopefully, a Democratic majority across the White House, the Senate and in White House.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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