SELF-ACCUSATIONS Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

self-accusations

noun

plural of self-accusation

as in confessions

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Noun

Killer identified The search for answers stretched across decades, combined with false confessions, arrests, convictions and appeals before DNA and ballistics evidence identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers in September 2025.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
In the 1990s, researchers were finally able to read the confessions beaten out of Stalin’s victims and to see the bloodstains on the paper.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of confessions

Noun

The boldest declarations of solidarity, Lee knows, often precede the quietest and cruellest of betrayals.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
The invasive species, first discovered in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in October 2024, has prompted emergency declarations in Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin and Kern counties.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of declarations

Noun

Those are affirmations Rams players and coaches have utilized during a season of great expectations mired in major underachievement.

— Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Since its inception in 2022, Doggyland has produced a variety of educational songs about affirmations, letters, numbers, colors, animals, good habits and accepting others.

— Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of affirmations

Noun

But what an imaginative launching pad to interrogate the nature of greatness, the unsatisfactory acknowledgements of one’s own mediocrity, the seemingly unjust parceling out of genius from God.

— Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
Among other acknowledgments of his work, he was included in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of acknowledgments

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Students and workers are angry Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system.

— Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026
Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of admissions

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Trump has repeatedly denied ordering the disruption of Starlink, despite Musk's public assertions that the order would have come from the White House.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Consistent with our principles of objectivity and fair process, the referral neither adopts nor rejects the factual assertions in your letter and does not prejudge OPR's assessment.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of assertions

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