meaning-making

Example Sentences

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So you’re not just, you know, in this unmoored meaning-making space.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

Just as childbearing is meaning-making, so is the inverse: Not having children, or having fewer, can be an expression of women’s unprecedented abilities to find meaning and purpose outside of motherhood.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2024

The scholars said future research should explore this "outsourced meaning-making process" with larger samples of posts, and on other popular platforms such as Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

Therapy for me is a blend of pattern recognition, meaning-making, developing bodily and sensory awareness, and attunement — a word that describes the kind of attention you experience when in deep relationship with another person.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023

"At least" and other counterfactuals can make us feel better and improve performance, other research shows, even if that meaning-making process initially feels like a negation.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2022