oneself

Example Sentences

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“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Creation comes naturally to both of them; playing with personal aesthetics is a means of liberating oneself from the status quo.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

The great arbitrage of the 21st century is to preserve openness without surrendering agency and to assert sovereignty without cutting oneself from technology, markets, and ideas.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

An intermission bought time to familiarize oneself with text squeezed onto the cellphone screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain, he would say, by turning inside oneself, by finding one’s own soul.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok