self-analysis

Example Sentences

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In the latest bombshell dropped by the two reporters, they dug up seven drafts of the department’s self-analysis, or after-action report, and found that it had been altered multiple times to soften damning conclusions.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

The self-analysis, at times, has been more brutal than any pundit could muster on their angriest day.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2023

I suppose that in dissecting the song with them, I was indulging in some self-analysis: trying to understand how a happy union of lyrics and musical notes could stay with me so meaningfully, for decades.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Until, that is, they reach the point where self-analysis ends and self-interest begins.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

It is obvious that an outline of this sort can be used in expressing the personality of another individual as well as for the purposes of self-analysis.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.