self-actualize
Americanverb (used without object)
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As of this month, Island Books has been helping readers self-actualize for five decades.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Jada's version of her 40th birthday blow-up is a tale of determination to self-actualize.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2023
The directors suggested the experience of participating in the rescue helped you self-actualize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
In the normal course of things, all of those characters would self-actualize and follow their bliss to one of those Hollywood endings they sing about in a choreographed lunchroom number.
From The Verge ● Dec. 5, 2018
“They raised the three of us to self-actualize, to do what we love and are passionate about,” says Lynn Tyson, an executive in investor relations.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2015
Those responsibilities may sound like they give Clara a certain stature, but the reality is that she is more a trained, chained house pet than self-actualized adult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
The profession has lost is a fearless reporter who was more self-actualized than most journalists her age, current and former colleagues said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Ms. Zittel offers a model in A-Z West, her “Institute of Investigative Living” on 70 acres in Joshua Tree, Calif., that serves as a self-actualized art-in-the-desert fantasy.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2020
“You don’t have to figure this all out overnight and become a totally self-actualized person.”
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2019
If you are a body positivity guru who is all empowered and self-actualized, good for you.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2019
Nor, as it happens, in their ability to remind us of the self-actualizing power drag can have on even its most casual fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2023
Psychologists have found that authenticity in this self-actualizing sense improves well-being—it’s good for you.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2019
My reading is that he argued that everyone is capable of self-actualizing, but are blocked by deficiencies in our most basic needs.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2019
And even if they are objectively true, they are not self-actualizing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2015
Second, the three categories of givers, matchers, and takers described in the research Grant did need to be refined to include two types of givers--you could call them self-actualizing and masochistic.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2013
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