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ourselves

[ahr-selvz, ouuhr-, ou-er-] / ɑrˈsɛlvz, aʊər-, ˌaʊ ər- /


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She was very contemporaneous with Our Bodies Ourselves.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories.’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

From de Waal's 1982 book "Chimpanzee Politics" to 2019's "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What they Tell Us about Ourselves," attitudes about whether animals might have thoughts worthy of scientific exploration changed dramatically.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Neil Postman wrote in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that “entertainment is the supra-ideology of all discourse on television.”

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2024

Ourselves we have not had sufficient to eat for long enough.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque



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