self-fulfillment
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-fulfillment
First recorded in 1860–65
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It will concern whether AIs have any independent right to self-fulfillment and self-gratification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Turner-Seed’s own writing lays bare a struggle for self-fulfillment, to reconcile the traditional values pushed by her Jewish immigrant parents with a restless need to discover and make her own way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
Everyone who volunteers for the day of service, Harrell said, will get two things: a sense of self-fulfillment that they did something about a problem rather than just complaining, and a T-shirt.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
In “Accommodations,” a Manhattan wife and mother upends her family’s upscale status quo when she stops accommodating those around her and sets out on in search of creative self-fulfillment.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2020
Amos Fortune's choice; the story of a Negro slave's struggle for self-fulfillment.
From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Dorothy B. Porter
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