Example Sentences

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Brilliantly observant and self-searching, the diaries were also Ms. Garner’s creative lifeline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

He struck me as a man really continuing a path of self-searching, which I really enjoyed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022

I’m struck by the degree to which “Special” echoes “Shrill,” on Hulu, in its particular concerns and general tone as a semi-autobiographical comedy combining social satire and twentysomething self-searching.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

Feel free to spend some time over the coming weeks and months doing some self-searching.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2016

All this had come to him soon after Jacqueline’s death, in that period of self-searching that followed.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot