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Recent Examples of introversion
Yai’s unexpected introversion is overshadowed by her strange and enchanting presence, much like the saturated floral aroma.
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Essence, 24 Apr. 2025
This, combined with the inherent nature of introversion, where socializing can be draining, makes the current landscape particularly taxing.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
Contrary to popular belief, introversion isn't about shyness or social anxiety.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
And there are ways to square your natural introversion with the universal human need for connection.
—Olga Khazan, Vox, 11 Mar. 2025
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Essence, 24 Apr. 2025
This, combined with the inherent nature of introversion, where socializing can be draining, makes the current landscape particularly taxing.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
Contrary to popular belief, introversion isn't about shyness or social anxiety.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
And there are ways to square your natural introversion with the universal human need for connection.
—Olga Khazan, Vox, 11 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for introversion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for introversion
- self-absorption
- self-analysis
- self-awareness
- introspection
- self-involvement
- self-recognition
- self-concern
- self-realization
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When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Weakness Confidence is essential in leadership, but there's a fine line between self-assurance and self-absorption.—
Isabelita Castilho,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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His self-absorption, against the backdrop of such enormous loss, was particularly striking.—
Kevin Johnson,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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With a mind engaged in varied tasks, the time dedicated to art becomes sharper, less prone to the debilitating self-analysis that can derail artistic momentum.—
Kice Akkawi,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
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Mills, a longtime associate of Fiona Apple, knows this territory well: the pointed self-analysis of an extremely sensitive person.—
Jenn Pelly,
Time,
7 June 2025
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By lacking a growth mindset and self-awareness, leaders can be trapped by blind spots and office politics.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The experience eventually sparked the script for Scream, which married razor-wire tension with meta self-awareness.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
19 June 2025
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Jupiter's transit through Cancer sparks conversations and creativity, but Saturn in Aries encourages more introspection and solitude to gain deeper insights.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
14 June 2025
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The 2023 revelations about Brand led to much anger and entertainment industry introspection.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
30 May 2025
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The conceit and self-involvement of Isabella’s brother John is also dispatched effectively, not with aphorism but with his own words.—
Adelle Waldman,
New Yorker,
31 May 2025
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But when we’re made to watch Tesfaye sing it in its entirety in an unbroken close-up while crying at the beauty of his own music, the introspection turns to simple self-involvement.—
Charles Bramesco,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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My singing voice was as constant as my heartbeat, as unique as my fingerprints, as necessary to my self-recognition as seeing my face in the mirror.—
Greta Morgan
June 5,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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While the specific returns for these players could be debated, and even though the thought of Marchand, Carlo and Coyle is difficult for any Bruins fan to swallow, the self-recognition by Boston will be appreciated in years to come.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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How much genuine pathos, and how much savvy self-concern, expediency?—
Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
21 July 2024
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While our hearts might be able to bleed for billions of strangers at a time, our heads are often preoccupied with more local problems, and the 21st century has exacerbated that dissonance to the point that we’re all locked in a near-constant negotiation between empathy and self-concern.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 June 2024
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But the director maintains a strong level of realistic tension, sticking to Camille’s side as the boy takes plenty of blows but dishes out plenty as well, jabbing his way towards a form of self-realization.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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With suspense and self-realizations, this book will have readers lose track of time and space.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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“Introversion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/introversion. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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