self-absorbed
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By all accounts, these self-absorbed and overcredentialed but undereducated youths are struggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"We will no longer be an isolated country, a country that is self-absorbed and acts solely out of political necessity."
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Reichardt is laying bare a privileged man’s half-assed delinquency, especially with O’Connor so hypnotic at conveying self-absorbed cluelessness with his woeful eyes, posture and movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
By Alan, of course, he is referring to his much-loved and often quoted comedy creation, Alan Partridge - the tactless, self-absorbed and self-styled presenter.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Even in my own self-absorbed funk, I was worried about her, because as my siblings and I slowly got to our emotional feet, Mommy staggered about in an emotional stupor for nearly a year.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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