oneself

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A former Tennessee star, Lawson brings Summitt’s brand crackling intensity to Duke, a mindset that she’s said calls for supreme confidence, chasing excellence and holding oneself to an all-around standard of success.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

The great arbitrage of the 21st century is to preserve openness without surrendering agency and to assert sovereignty without cutting oneself from technology, markets, and ideas.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

“In an atomized society,” Ms. Liu observes, “where it’s easy to simply withdraw and isolate oneself, the crucial challenge was to do just the opposite: to reach out, reconnect, and rebuild community.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The truest to buttery brioche in flavor and texture, and through its lightness, one could almost convince oneself this is breakfast.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

She had wanted to go to Columbia in New York or Adelphi in Brooklyn, but Ben said that part of education was adapting oneself to a new environment.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith