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Recent Examples of self-abandonment
In the film, Ferreira stars as Lily Trevino, a 25-year-old at-home caretaker who struggles with self-abandonment.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
The emotional toll of self-abandonment can be severe, leading to resentment, exhaustion and anxiety.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Yet, as Danny watches her real passport being fed into a shredder, the torment of self-abandonment begins to weigh on her.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
Khaled himself maintains a mysterious inertia that turns Matar’s narrative into a deep and detailed exploration not so much of abandonment as of self-abandonment: the story of a man split in two, one who cannot quite tell the story that would make the parts cohere again.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
The novelist Thomas Mann thought that German expressionism and Nazism both sprang from the same root of emotional self-abandonment.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
The emotional toll of self-abandonment can be severe, leading to resentment, exhaustion and anxiety.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Yet, as Danny watches her real passport being fed into a shredder, the torment of self-abandonment begins to weigh on her.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
Khaled himself maintains a mysterious inertia that turns Matar’s narrative into a deep and detailed exploration not so much of abandonment as of self-abandonment: the story of a man split in two, one who cannot quite tell the story that would make the parts cohere again.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
The novelist Thomas Mann thought that German expressionism and Nazism both sprang from the same root of emotional self-abandonment.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-abandonment
Noun
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Memory loss, incontinence and trouble walking are also common.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
23 May 2025
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The condition is defined difficulty walking (often described as a shuffling or magnetic gait), cognitive decline resembling dementia, and urinary incontinence.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Toxic disinhibition thrives in environments where facial expressions, vocal tone and immediate feedback aren’t required (which is to say, essentially all of modern online dating).—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Behavioral disinhibition—the inability to control impulses, emotions, and attention—is a trait common to ADHD and can affect decision-making.—
Hannah Singleton,
Health,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This instant gratification creates customer loyalty while building sustainable revenue streams.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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To see 30,000 people on their feet and cheer after watching something, that kind of gratification for him and myself and everyone else that was involved in PBR — everyone who worked their asses off in six days.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Advertisement What Fellowes can’t countenance are privileged people who lack the magnanimity befitting their rank and, most of all, servants who are insufficiently grateful to their benevolent employers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Courage is the habit of moving forward despite fear, and its associated virtues include perseverance, resilience, and magnanimity.—
Andrew Abela,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
Noun
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The year is 2052 when an era of peace and unbridled indulgence reigns supreme.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
20 June 2025
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This mocktail is pure indulgence with a playful twist.—
Essence,
Essence,
17 June 2025
Noun
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There are some people who will criticize your generation’s altruism as childlike fantasy.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
14 June 2025
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And in humans the structure has been linked to traits such as trust, empathy, moral decision-making and extraordinary altruism.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
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“Self-abandonment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-abandonment. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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