to oneself
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The team examined how visual and tactile signals are merged to create the experience that a body part belongs to oneself, a process known as the sense of body ownership.
From Science Daily • Jan. 14, 2026
He says in more recent times, the term has also been used affectionately of someone considered a bogan or even in reference to oneself such as the term "inner bogan".
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
Carl Jung wrote, “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2025
“If they took you into the Actors Studio, it made one say to oneself, ‘Maybe I have something.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024
Such is the benefit of language: By finding public words to describe one’s feelings, one can describe oneself to oneself.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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