insecure
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If you tell your chatbot you’re feeling insecure and anxious, that becomes how it sees you, and may keep reminding you of that even if you’ve moved on.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
"This will give insecure workers on variable hours security in their working lives which they are so badly lacking at the moment," a spokesperson added.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
In a statement read on her behalf immediately before sentencing, she described suffering nightmares and added: "I feel ashamed, insecure and uncomfortable in my own body."
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
He was complacent and insecure, daring in the administrative stratagems he employed to bring himself to the attention of his superiors and craven in his concern that his schemes might all backfire.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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