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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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
Yet the same people clung fiercely to their self-image as gutsy investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Like their hero, the only masculine strength they seem interested in is the kind performed for cameras, far away from real-world challenges that might easily defeat their self-image as the mightiest of men.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
We recognize that mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one’s character.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
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
The mismatch between our selves and our self-images takes charged shape in three masks by Richard Hawkins and Elijah Burgher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
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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