Recent Examples on the WebThis creed became his middle son’s inheritance, the core of his self-conception as the uniquely unillusioned defender of the State of Israel.—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024 Enlarge / Evernote's self-conception of its brain-decluttering powers.—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 July 2023 If science, coming from outside, tells us that our self-conceptions are confused, so much the worse for them.—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 Maybe the sequel to Air can deal with those people who Nike ignores in their self-conception.—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023 The brutal British crackdown following the Rising had transformed the national mood; there was no place in Ireland’s emerging self-conception for men like Willie Dunne.—Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
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