Example Sentences

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I had had enough of men self-improving me.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Paltrow is the most expert of all: Self-aware, self-actualized, self-improving, and beyond self-reproach, she’s what Goop is actually selling.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2020

On some level I must have had reading African women down as self-improving but not necessarily enjoyable, when in fact it was mostly the latter and often both.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2018

Science creates a self-improving description of nature, but one that we cannot hope will ever be final, a point I explored in my book The Island of Knowledge.

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2018

A bright, alert, intelligent, harmonious atmosphere so pervades a self-improving home that one feels insensibly uplifted and stimulated to better things.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett