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Recent Examples of self-abandonment
This subtle feeling can grow into a lack of self-trust or self-abandonment.
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Yann Dang,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2026
Shouldn’t the conversion story, in its form, facilitate this ardent self-abandonment?
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Terry Nguyen
july 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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.
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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.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Nov. 2024
Yann Dang,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2026
Shouldn’t the conversion story, in its form, facilitate this ardent self-abandonment?
—
Terry Nguyen
july 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
In the film, Ferreira stars as Lily Trevino, a 25-year-old at-home caretaker who struggles with self-abandonment.
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-abandonment
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The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
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Weakness in this muscle group becomes increasingly common with age, causing urinary incontinence and other symptoms.
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Both required enormous amounts of selflessness, stamina, plasticity, courage, and improvisation.
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We're taught that love is mostly a matter of selflessness, and that the best partners are the ones who give the most, defer the most and ask for the least.
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As this new Bride comes to life, her passion, curiosity, and disinhibition captivate Frank.
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Digital environments can facilitate certain aspects of relationship formation due to factors such as digital disinhibition, whereby individuals express themselves more freely in online settings compared to face-to-face contexts.
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More than any of them, Hart elevated unselfishness to an art form.
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His unselfishness and understanding of how to fit his skill set around Nikola Jokic’s brilliance remain unmatched.
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Can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others?
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Psychologists call this tendency delay of gratification, and decades of research (published in PNAS) have tracked it as one of the most durable predictors of life outcomes, financial ones included.
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When storage itself is put on display, of course, the museum is still speaking, declaring both the wealth of its holdings and its generosity in sharing them.
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Badly wounded in a battle of revenge, Robin Hood is brought to a priory and tended by Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer), whose generosity awakens his finer feelings and spurs him to virtuous, self-sacrificing action.
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Now the carriages are no longer a necessity but an indulgence aimed at tourists.
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Chocolate is one of Americans' favorite indulgences, with consumers spending billions of dollars on it every year.
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But Beijing’s magnanimity isn’t going to transform the continent’s economy.
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His magnanimity did not last long.
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“Self-abandonment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-abandonment. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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