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Recent Examples of self-betrayal
But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal,
the body knows.
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Patrycja Humienik, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
This self-betrayal reduces your ability to engage in an unself-conscious, fully authentic way.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Combatting machine mindset begins with ending self-betrayal and honoring your intuition and your needs as a human being.
—Amanda Miller Littlejohn, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
And changing yourself isn’t inherently self-betrayal.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
This can contribute to feelings of low self-worth, self-betrayal and even anxiety or depression.
—Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
Patrycja Humienik, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
This self-betrayal reduces your ability to engage in an unself-conscious, fully authentic way.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Combatting machine mindset begins with ending self-betrayal and honoring your intuition and your needs as a human being.
—Amanda Miller Littlejohn, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
And changing yourself isn’t inherently self-betrayal.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
This can contribute to feelings of low self-worth, self-betrayal and even anxiety or depression.
—Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-betrayal
Noun
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Filled with footnotes where Reid takes her off-the-cuff voice and honest takes to the next level, Enough is a book of our times, wherein candor, confessions, and embracing the bad along with the good seem to rule more by the moment.—
Maya Silver,
Outside Online,
20 Apr. 2025
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Then another man who had been imprisoned as a possible suspect — a black World War II veteran and construction worker, Wesley Byrd, 26 — said Apodaca and state police drove him into the desert and used torture to try to force a confession from him.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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But amid the fanfare of parades, fireworks and airshows, a long-standing debate over what to call the holiday continues, a subtle acknowledgment of the lingering scars of a contentious war.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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There is now growing public acknowledgment from the tech industry that gas will be needed, at least in the near term, to help fuel AI.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
26 Apr. 2025
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One in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours, according to an Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis.—
Devna Bose and Benjamin Thorp,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Tickets cost $9, or $7 for children ages 2 to 17; admission is free for kids under 2.—
Kendrick Marshall,
Sacbee.com,
19 Apr. 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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The finale gave us a pretty thrilling cliffhanger: an airborne dragon duel, the killing of a young prince, avowals of all-out war.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
14 June 2024
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Small affirmations of love and gratitude help keep the emotional connection alive.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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In September 2023, for instance, Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required courts to consider affirmation of gender identity when making child custody and visitation decisions.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Arkansas' federal delegation has asked President Donald Trump to reconsider the federal government's decisions on major disaster declaration requests in response to severe weather in mid-March.—
Alex Thomas,
Arkansas Online,
27 Apr. 2025
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The government agency said the move is in response to President Trump's January 20 declaration of a national energy emergency.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2025
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After weeks of discussions, betrayals and guessing, Barnes and team-mate Joe Worrall were revealed as the traitors and won the game.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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In a tale of power, faith, and betrayal that echoes through time – one man’s ultimate sacrifice becomes humanity’s greatest story.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
2 May 2025
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Orsolya is apparently wracked with feelings of complicity, though the film, which is made up mainly of extended shots of her conversations with other people, questions the sincerity of her self-reproach against a backdrop of ethnic tension and neoliberal sprawl in Romania.—
Beatrice Loayza,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Amanda’s self-reproach expresses a depressed national mood.—
Armond White,
National Review,
10 Apr. 2024
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“Self-betrayal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-betrayal. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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