selfsame
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“Stared at as closely and keenly as possible,” Dillon writes, “even the most elegant, precise or selfsame forms are revealed as monsters.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Instead of reflection on that point, we have to grapple with the fact that it comes from the selfsame jurists who see every critique of their own conduct as intolerable.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022
Then, importantly, this selfsame source claimed to, for sure, know the provenance of the pesto — that it came frozen, with notably simple, appropriate ingredients, and that it was called Armanino Basil Pesto.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
And one of the editors was John Curtice, whose exit poll this evening now poses that selfsame question once again, nearly 30 years on.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019
At this selfsame moment J.W. came awake and backed out of Lloyd’s lap, which was perfect.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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