inner monologue

Example Sentences

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"I didn't start my period, so I started to develop that inner monologue of something's not quite right."

From BBC • May 3, 2026

Through Joe’s raw inner monologue, "You" challenged us to empathize with a man fighting a losing battle with his sanity, and confronted the reality of being open and honest with destructive thoughts.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

For now, though, she’s listening to her own inner monologue, which has morphed into: “How do I be more of who I am and what I am and let the culture catch up?”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Hu says in the future they might try to add an inner monologue component to pretrained models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision, which already contains elements of general knowledge and reasoning.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 8, 2024

She was talking to me, trying to console me, but I couldn’t hear her over my own inner monologue beating myself up for doing so badly.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad