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Recent Examples of self-assertion
Saturn has been transiting the first few degrees of Aries since May 24, bringing fresh momentum to themes surrounding our identity, autonomy and self-assertion.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Then, as Venus moves into Pisces, the focus shifts from self-assertion to a deeper, more transcendent love.
—Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
This self-assertion can also subtly influence how your manager perceives you.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
As the story proceeds, the narrator dredges up more secrets, more cries for help that double as acts of self-assertion.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
Scott’s blinking, stuttering, no-longer-shy self-assertion is absolutely recognizable and absorbing.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Then, as Venus moves into Pisces, the focus shifts from self-assertion to a deeper, more transcendent love.
—Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
This self-assertion can also subtly influence how your manager perceives you.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
As the story proceeds, the narrator dredges up more secrets, more cries for help that double as acts of self-assertion.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
Scott’s blinking, stuttering, no-longer-shy self-assertion is absolutely recognizable and absorbing.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-assertion
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Still, Patel warns Gen Z that confidence can quickly morph into arrogance.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Schmitt suffers a nervous breakdown after his arrogance (and Webber’s long leash on the residency program) leads to him killing a podcaster on the operating table and these two break up again.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Once again, Farley is wary of letting complacency creep in.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The executives have chuckled at the team’s seeming complacency and incapacity for change, which culminated in a 43-119 record in 2025, a finish that put the club on par with the 2024 Chicago White Sox and 1962 New York Mets in terms of futility.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After a precise drone and cruise missile successfully hit Saudi Arabia’s vital oil infrastructure in September 2019, Russia could hardly conceal its delight and self-satisfaction.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking.—
David Brooks,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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By incorporating a character unable to do anything but cry and coo, the show only highlights its disinterest in more nuanced examinations of human behavior, such as greed or egotism.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.—
Isaac Butler,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2023
Noun
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The original 1877 building has grown not just to house the museum’s burgeoning collections and encompass its expanding role as an educator, entertainer and research institution, but to project an evolving sense of science’s self-conceit.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
4 May 2023
Noun
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Play Tetris in your bathroom vanity or junk drawer with these versatile containers.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2025
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Stainless-steel twin vanities are tucked into niches at opposite ends of the 20-foot-long space, while the water closet and double shower are obscured behind frosted glass and metal doors.—
Mark David,
Robb Report,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With or without self-aggrandizement, a kind of precedent was established.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Self-assertion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-assertion. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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