self

Example Sentences

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The review presents processed Polygonum multiflorum as a more acceptable option for some patients, but it does not suggest that people should self treat without guidance.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

To be accused of stealing one’s poems when the poems were the last shelter of the self was an unusual cruelty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But mostly, it makes me wonder if what makes a boy’s mother a Boy Mom is a sense of self that requires the consistent validation of being needed.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

He added his experience had changed that view, saying he now wanted "to celebrate the whole self".

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Calling Greeley, “the self appointed Attorney General for the hobgoblin society,” the Burr brothers set out to expose spirit communication as a fraud and tell the public the truth about the Fox sisters.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock