self-awareness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In a notorious 2015 speech, Kovalchuk warned that the West was moving toward the creation of “servant humans”—controllable people with limited self-awareness and manipulated reproduction.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Not thinking, feeling, experiencing self-awareness or consciousness or anything else.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
To make my characters more interesting than that, I wanted them to have moments of self-awareness that would stick like a splinter in their brains and not let them off the hook.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
On the other hand, there is zero self-awareness in these comment sections, and definitely no humor.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
This self-awareness never leaves me, and every time I open my mouth, I think, “You should have said that differently” or “That’s fine the way it is.”
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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