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oneself

Definition for oneself

noun as in self

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He says in more recent times, the term has also been used affectionately of someone considered a bogan or even in reference to oneself such as the term "inner bogan".

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To support Hamas, as some on the left have done, is to associate oneself with Jew-hatred, knowingly or not.

Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, wrote in a blog that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."

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The fellows read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, took an improv-themed class on how to think on one’s feet and present oneself in the workplace, and went on field trips, including to the site of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

He recalls himself as a teenager, encountering Roth’s writing for the first time: His “confessional voice, explosive intelligence, and impatience with dishonesty to oneself all had the feel of a barrage of urgent letters addressed just to me.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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