ourselves

Example Sentences

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“If a high number of those children are not getting the follow-up care, we may just be fooling ourselves and checking a box,” Chung said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

“Who do we have to blame but ourselves if we are not putting the right proposition in front of the student?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

“So rather than trying to recreate that ourselves, it made a lot of sense to bring them in, support what they’re doing and help them scale,” she added.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

"We're giving ourselves a little more time -- two to three weeks –- to try to reach an agreement between the French and Germans, between Dassault and Airbus," he said at a forum in Paris.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Souilly was a smaller region than Paris, but it still would have been difficult to imagine Mae and I responsible for covering all the shifts ourselves.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse