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self-help

[self-help, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈhɛlp, ˈsɛlf- /


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While in custody, he obtained a master’s degree and completed multiple self-help programs.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

A thread of fraudulence enters Mr. Gutjahr’s story with the self-help fatuities of Helena Blavatsky and L. Ron Hubbard.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

He said the executive could consider more "self-help" in the form of revenue-raising, but where there are "significant" budgetary pressures he wanted to be able to help.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

One of her biggest writers is the author-activist Glennon Doyle, who has chronicled addiction, divorce and an unexpected romance with soccer player Abby Wambach across a string of blockbuster self-help memoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

“I have no idea. I can’t read it. But a lot of her jobs are junky self-help books that she complains about. She’s more of a science fiction fan.”

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead




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