Example Sentences

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But his most obvious and disqualifying flaw is that he has no observable principles beyond dedication to his own self-advancement.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024

It’s a tool one uses for self-advancement and self-preservation.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023

Yes, Dovlatov and his friends had essentially no hope of official recognition, of being able to do work that both held meaning for them and fit with the paths for self-advancement on offer.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

Moving from Ulster to London in 1679 to study medicine, he developed a talent for self-advancement.

From Nature • May 23, 2017

This kind of freedom, he maintained, was not inconsistent with self-organization for self-advancement.

From The Black Experience in America by Coombs, Norman