self-understanding
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “The Mattering Instinct” is an attempt to place human self-understanding on a new footing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The very basis of our self-understanding is on the line.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
The story of identity formation is deeply personal, based on the sedimentation of experience, self-understanding, and the ascriptions of others.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023
The experience left Aviv, a staff writer at the New Yorker, with an enduring interest in how mental illness shapes self-understanding.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
Through the years many of us come to use words as a means of passing a course, or we view words as a mode for self-explosion, expression, and self-understanding.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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