How to Use self-examination in a Sentence

self-examination

noun
  • Take a cue from the pros and make time for self-examination.
    Janine Schindler, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Ladies, check this as your reminder to do the self-examination in the shower.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
  • But Travis Scott isn’t an artist known for deep self-examination either.
    Hazlitt, 23 Aug. 2023
  • With Scorpio season in full force, this time of the year encourages us to do deep self-examination to face our shadow sides.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • On the other hand, the season ended poorly, with Bickerstaff and the Cavs underachieving in the first round -- a result that took weeks to get over and led to self-examination.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This will help in being able to detect changes during breast self-examinations.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Readers will be most moved by Liu’s humility in his constant learning of the craft of social protest and his many moral self-examinations.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Deep self-examination doesn’t always come easy to hard-charging CEOs.
    Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • On the 30th, the full moon in fellow water sign Pisces brings a rare opportunity for self-examination and release.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Hopefully, this conversation will be a wakeup call for your friend and prompt her to do some self-examination.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Discipline and self-examination are the cornerstones of Kipchoge’s approach both to sport and life.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • It's not been easy and has taken significant work and self-examination.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • That kind of deep self-examination requires patience, courage, and more often than not, discomfort.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a lot of self-examination in this season in particular about Dave’s relationship to his fans.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Warhol is a brisk dip in self-deprecating self-examination.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
  • This self-examination seems glib (whereas del Toro was actually more affecting as the desperate artist in The French Dispatch).
    Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025
  • And Kenyatta, so dedicated to action and self-examination, has made no allowance for the profound damage done to his daughter by his absence.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
  • For that matter, much of what has happened to everyone at this point, and what happens in these two episodes, is a result of various characters attempting self-examination.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Women should regularly perform a self-examination to look and feel for any changes or symptoms related to breast cancer.
    Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The issue is around the media’s absence of self-examination about its actions in 2016, and its lack of candid discussion around whether Clinton deserved similar caution.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • At once a tribute to the bygone movie palaces of his hometown of Recife, and an introspective self-examination focused on his relationship with film, this evocative documentary is a must-see for all cinephiles.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The self-examination that question sparks in Rebecca is a fascinatingly rich one that deals with notions like consent, personal boundaries and abuse of power.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
  • In an album that is both unconventional and authentic – almost six years in the making – the artiste leans into soul self-examination with her friend and co-producer, Abdullah Siddiqui.
    Sonya Rehman, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • That kind of self-examination and honesty is uncomfortable.
    Lianne Lyne, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Protestants have to find their own way to God’s blessing, through self-examination, public testimony, and the performance of actions that demonstrate impeccable virtue.
    Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • After a Bengali interpreter who works with asylum seekers in Paris is charged with assaulting a refugee, her resulting self-examination lays bare the callousness of France’s asylum system.
    New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • This complicated story provides a unique tradition that anchors the institution of the Catholic Church, but can also block the church from critical self-examination and renewal.
    Daniel Speed Thompson, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Claire Dederer has expanded her essay into a broad and fascinating study of the issue, and also a radical self-examination that is highly valuable.
    Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • For readers of a certain age, these passages, which capture a romantic longing that is adolescent in its intensity, will provoke self-examination.
    Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024
  • Under the guidance of their trainers, athletes undergo self-examination and trial-and-error strategies for improvement.
    Janine Schindler, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025

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