orient
noun
the Orient,
self-oriented
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a word derived from
orient.
Example Sentences
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“I obviously get the self-oriented obsession with getting better,” Navratilova said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022
Lofty yet amorphous expectations are like warm, moist air with an updraft: a perfect storm for what psychologists have dubbed "self-oriented perfectionism."
From Salon ● May 16, 2021
"If you communicate self-oriented answers like, 'I need more money,' 'I want a better title,' or 'I'm going nowhere in my present firm,' you'll be dead in the water," Beshara writes.
From US News ● Oct. 28, 2015
Sometimes, because I'm so wrapped up in my work, you could say I was self-oriented.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013
In one experiment, the Israeli neuroscientist Rafi Malach presented subjects with pictures and asked them to judge their own emotional reactions as positive, negative or neutral — a self-oriented, introspective task.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2010
