for oneself
Example Sentences
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Kindness, including for oneself, helps clear the debris of the past.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
This finding suggested that giving to other people could provide more pleasure — per the brain’s reward system — than doing something that feels good for oneself.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025
"Our results provide evidence that a simple and easily implementable change in behavior -- setting specific goals for oneself -- can significantly improve our ability to maintain task focus over time," Robison said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
The play is a study in learning to bear failure and futility, if not for oneself then for those loved ones, like lonely Sonya, who has enough sorrow without the addition of her uncle’s suicide.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022
Actually, getting and doing for oneself was his advice on everything.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
