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Your self-image as well as the way you’re perceived by others will be evolving in a major way now, and pairing faith and imagination and even letting your imagination run wild with a hefty dose of determination will translate to results in terms of greater confidence and making your mark.—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026 In Norway, a former prime minister was charged with corruption linked to Epstein, while a princess is also named in the files, shattering Norway’s self-image as egalitarian, high-trust, and low corruption, a Norwegian academic wrote in The Guardian.—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026 There is also the fact that Brazil’s national self-image is so bound up with football.—The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026 But John Rogers, a professor of education at UCLA who has studied the link between money and learning, suggested a bigger issue in the new war on poverty is about self-image and expectation.—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 15 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for self-image