oneself
Example Sentences
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Empowering oneself, not being bullied, knowing your value and not letting people take advantage of you.
“In an atomized society,” Ms. Liu observes, “where it’s easy to simply withdraw and isolate oneself, the crucial challenge was to do just the opposite: to reach out, reconnect, and rebuild community.”
The truest to buttery brioche in flavor and texture, and through its lightness, one could almost convince oneself this is breakfast.
From Salon
"The first idea is to define oneself as a nation," he said, adding nations need "a culture of their own."
From Barron's
“Statements of shared values still matter, but only when they are backed by the ability to say no without inflicting debilitating harm on oneself,” she said in a piece for Policy Magazine.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
