selves

Example Sentences

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Likewise, consider investing your own hard-earned money where people invest in their selves, in becoming who they want to become, in flourishing as human beings.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Genuinely engaging as their real selves could risk total social exclusion or worse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

In the 40 second video from the World Without Exploitation group, released in the US on Super Bowl Sunday, survivors held up photographs of their younger selves and said "we all deserve the truth".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Not quite as good, but still warmhearted: an ad in which athletes Puka Nacua, Oksana Masters and Bubba Wallace meet their younger selves, remembering how they got inspired in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison