self-understanding
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “The Mattering Instinct” is an attempt to place human self-understanding on a new footing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
With SZA as his Greek chorus, he ended the night on a note about how all this relentless work was worth it to arrive at real self-understanding.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025
The story of identity formation is deeply personal, based on the sedimentation of experience, self-understanding, and the ascriptions of others.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023
The experience left Aviv, a staff writer at the New Yorker, with an enduring interest in how mental illness shapes self-understanding.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
Sunrise, and flowing stream, and tossing seas are valuable as associates of the soul and helping it to self-understanding.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
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