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On that perfect-weather night in May, we danced and swayed with the nearly all-female audience as Taylor gracefully — and when she couldn’t pull off graceful, then humorously self-deprecatingly — moved through her eras.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024

“I’m so used to going into the studio and talking about myself and my feelings and what’s happening in my life,” she says, laughing self-deprecatingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

Though Hsu claims, self-deprecatingly, that the term “good friend … only occasionally applies to me,” the lasting effect of “Stay True” is that of an extraordinary, devotional act of friendship.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022

Lee, Marcus - and a third person who helps, a life coach called Wal - self-deprecatingly sum up their service as "three lads with three phones".

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2021

Old men grasp middle-aged women round the waist; smiling, self-deprecatingly they too begin to tread; Hej!

From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness