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Recent Examples of introversion
His Brazilian nationality certainly helps, as does his more outspoken personality that could clash with Messi’s introversion.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
Yai’s unexpected introversion is overshadowed by her strange and enchanting presence, much like the saturated floral aroma.
—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
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Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
Yai’s unexpected introversion is overshadowed by her strange and enchanting presence, much like the saturated floral aroma.
—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
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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Apple’s leadership may be demonstrating a healthy amount of self-awareness and executing a strategy that plays to its strengths.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Real-Life Vince McMahon Confrontation Taking Accountability During the panel, Cena also showed a moment of self-awareness regarding his own creative past.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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Nara's more recent paintings, such as Midnight Tears (2023), feature tender, fragmented brushwork that radiates introspection.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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This reduction in sensory input can promote deep introspection and emotional clarity.—
Victoria Malloy,
Outside Online,
21 July 2025
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She’s played by an A-list celebrity — Cate Blanchett — operating in a city renowned for its self-involvement and privilege.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 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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Lent is a time of preparation and self-recognition prior to Easter.—
Chris Sims,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Apr. 2025
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This film delves into his struggle with self-recognition, his passion for storytelling through art and his desire to spark wonder in those who encounter his work.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 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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Per Britannica, Jung's psychoanalytic method focuses on integrating conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche to achieve personal growth and self-realization.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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Even when characters get a moment of self-realization, Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s book, including sizeable chunks of the screenplay, replaces drama with platitudes or dialogue gags.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
24 June 2025
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“Introversion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/introversion. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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