Example Sentences

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What actress will nobly step in as Nora and save the production, while reducing Marcin to a puddle of self-recrimination and doubt?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

A few years later, Roland marries another woman, but she soon abandons him and their baby son, plunging Roland into a “lost decade” of self-recrimination.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022

His weight has soared to 400 pounds, and he is fighting arthritis, diabetes, depression and self-recrimination.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022

That is cause not for self-recrimination but for pride, as July 2026 should be.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2021

Tyler talked for a long time, moving through the events quickly but lingering in a wasteland of rationalization and self-recrimination.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover