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insecurity

[in-si-kyoor-i-tee] / ˌɪn sɪˈkjʊər ɪ ti /


NOUN
danger
Synonyms


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It’s perhaps because Reynolds is so familiar with overcoming feelings of insecurity that she understood Alice so well.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Their insecurity about AI’s impact on their livelihoods is growing.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

In the end, all that feels certain is the characters’ insecurity, their conviction that, whatever part they perform, there is someone else who can do it better.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Part of their unofficial relationship homework involves field missions that spark heated conversations about masculine insecurity and Diarra’s conflicted desires about motherhood.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

Trey thinks social media promotes insecurity and doesn’t use it much.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

But Judith’s insecurities add complexity to a protagonist who commands our attention through every twist of this novel’s labyrinthine plot.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

But maybe these images also tell us something about his insecurities: his desire to reassure everyone, including himself, that he was still the main man, as fit as he'd ever been.

From BBC May 30, 2026

It can remind us of our own financial insecurities or strike us as an unrealistically lightweight “problem.”

From MarketWatch May 15, 2026

Cooper launched the Unwell Network, a Gen-Z-focused media company spotlighting “unique voices that embrace social challenges and personal insecurities through honest conversation.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

Some biographers, pursuing the same interpretive line, have suggested that his deep-rooted insecurities drove him onto the plains of Weehawken and then into the fatal gaze of Aaron Burr.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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