ourselves
Example Sentences
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It’s an idea that simply to get through the day we are playing a role of sorts, tuning our conversations to please others, or presenting exaggerated, false or tidied-up versions of ourselves on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“We’re trying to shift our mindset,” Mitchell said, “and not try to hold ourselves to the expectations of what I saw my mom do.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"There's comedy there, and if we just stay miserable about it, we just make ourselves worse," he told AFP on the red carpet at the premiere in the Canadian city.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Whatever sense of invulnerability America may have had as the world’s only superpower was shattered, and it precipitated massive changes in the way we lived, traveled and perceived ourselves.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Souilly was a smaller region than Paris, but it still would have been difficult to imagine Mae and I responsible for covering all the shifts ourselves.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
