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self

[self] / sɛlf /


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Releasing updated figures on Tuesday, Zimbabwe's cabinet said 108,366 of its people had come home as of July 18, a majority of them self repatriating.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Coming back to her own self has taken time.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The fact the vast majority of the questions centred around his own personal performance against Argentina was perhaps another reason why he wasn't his usual personable self.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Catalogs have long had a formative impact on would-be consumers, offering a sense of aspiration on behalf of a future self, or a peek into the pasts of their loved ones.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Maybe it was because my future self had written it, or maybe it was because my future self clearly wanted to change something about the future.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“We often judge our younger selves using knowledge, maturity and resources that we did not possess at the time,” Penberthy says.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Empathy, the nuclear fusion of playwriting, is expanded when we’re allowed to take in more of our patchwork selves.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

All the adult actors are very pretty, including the women, though the calculation—a helpful one—was to cast performers who don’t resemble the younger selves of the present-day characters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Holloway added: "I want to express to people that you are allowed to evolve and change and embrace the whole story, their whole selves."

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

But with this, we dropped the politics and took our weary selves to bed.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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