self-revealing
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of self-revealing
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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We believe fox8 was only the tip of the iceberg because better coders can filter out self-revealing posts or use open-source AI models fine-tuned to remove ethical guardrails.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026
Viewers rated the Facebook users on average as having lower self-esteem and being more self-revealing, for example, than the users rated themselves.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
“The prerogative of cowardly withholding is precious to the most apparently self-revealing of writers. I apologetically exercise it here.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2023
The result is an unusually self-revealing show, especially when you factor in the 16 de Kooning catalogs vandalized into hybrid collaborations; the fictive, mad-bibliophile library; and a catalog to die for.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018
It still seemed to David as if she held something back from him, and now he begged her for a more perfect self-revealing.
From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne
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