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Wilson’s Sarah is heroic, particularly given her self-doubting nature and quasi-maternal motives, but Thompson makes Zoë, for all her failings and regrets, an instant icon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

Georgie said her win meant everything, after having always been so self-doubting.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024

Before Nyckoles’s announcement, the former U.S. men’s national soccer team member saw an aspect of his superstar son that the public had no proof even existed: his self-doubting side.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

Soft-spoken and self-doubting by nature — qualities that take on a radiant emotional eloquence in Swinton Byrne’s performance — Julie doesn’t always know what she’s trying to accomplish, let alone how to articulate it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

The characters of Trenchard, the self-doubting young Englishman, who finds reality in his love for the nurse Marie Ivanovna, and of the Russian doctor, Semyonov, who takes her from him, are exquisitely realized.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir