soul-searching
Example Sentences
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There was little soul-searching over his international future because Morocco never approached him.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
"If you're a soldier and you're driving a tank all day, the last thing you wanted was some introspective soul-searching song that I was writing," he says.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
By late 2022, the tech market in the doldrums, he retreated from public appearances, and underwent a period of soul-searching.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
A Reddit-like pseudo social network for OpenClaw agents called Moltbook, where chatbots converse, has also grabbed headlines and provoked soul-searching over AI.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
An electronic river of true pain had sprung up in that period of national soul-searching, far deeper than I’d imagined, and it was wrenching to have so much of it run literally through my fingers.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
