self-image
Americannoun
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self-images
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of self-image
First recorded in 1950–55
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The vintage movie footage—one of Mr. Magnason’s grandfathers was a camera buff, so images abound—gives a solid sense of a place, its people and its self-image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
And it's all connected to Trump's self-image, Cassino said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Yet Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
The discovery by the Caltech scientist, Haagy, profoundly altered the future of public health, of California, of cars, and of L.A.’s self-image and identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
For the sake of my self-image, my mother takes everything—everything—I say very seriously.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
Over time, aspects of the myth began seeping into the psyches and self-images of Jews themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
One of Holly Bass’s suite of self-images, set in a cotton field to recall her father’s sharecropper past, is printed on gauzy material stretched across a mirror to give a sense of shifting levels.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
The “Official Competition” is between their contrasting approaches, but it’s also a contest of egos and self-images.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
As Williams writes in Commute, “shame is an instrument of oppression”, and across comics, female artists are confronting their mottled self-images through the act of drawing their bodies, traumas and desires.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2019
I supported appropriate patient self-images with as many concrete "hard to denies" as possible.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
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