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Recent Examples of self-accusation
This element of self-accusation is what makes an apocalypse story distinctively modern.
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Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-accusation
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After chasing thousands of leads and pursuing several false confessions, investigators arrested the four men in 1999.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Investigators chased thousands of leads and several false confessions before the four men were arrested in late 1999.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The lesson is visibility without self-betrayal.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 Jan. 2026
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But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal, the body knows.—
Patrycja Humienik,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Still, there’s an ambiguity in her avowal.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Their jobs—which may involve stabbing, shooting, or strangling, as well as betrayals and avowals of loyalty, and locking bodies in car trunks for later disposal—may be slightly stressful at times, but the effects are temporary.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
30 July 2024
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Part of the reason Bragg didn’t know is that South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report admissions for measles, potentially obscuring the disease’s severity.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Her organization made the decision to no longer participate in the refugee admission program and to not to assist any new refugees besides Afghan allies.—
Anna Heqimi,
Hartford Courant,
20 Feb. 2026
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Recently, many have depicted motherhood as a harrowing ordeal of failure and self-reproach.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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The self-reproaches are reproaches against a loved object which have been shifted away from it on to the patient’s ego.—
Gary Greenberg,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The rare acknowledgment of potential missteps by ICE agents comes after the agency's acting director, Todd Lyons, told Congress on Thursday that ICE has conducted 37 investigations into officers' use of force over the past year.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
13 Feb. 2026
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For another president, sending the agents home could be an acknowledgment of rethinking that calculus or reckoning with mistakes made.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Damage could take ‘months to years’ to fix The declaration, in effect, accelerates the county’s ability to request additional resources as the agency tackles a restoration process that won’t come overnight.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Unlike authoritative declarations of truth, fiction has no obligation to dispel ambiguity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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Dixon noted that the policies concerning the affirmation of transgender ideology are being challenged in a number of blue states.—
Louis Casiano , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Bloomingdale’s recent performance provides some affirmation that with proper execution, the department store model is still viable, despite what have been decades of consolidation and skepticism dogging the sector.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Self-accusation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-accusation. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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