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Recent Examples of self-doubt
Being overlooked triggers self-doubt today.
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Usa Today, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
Today self-doubt, feelings of insecurity and genuine confusion might cloud important issues.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2026
Turn self-doubt into playful experimentation!
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
Per its official synopsis, the book includes tips on sharpening emotional and cognitive intelligence, as well as overcoming self-doubt and rejection.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
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Usa Today, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
Today self-doubt, feelings of insecurity and genuine confusion might cloud important issues.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2026
Turn self-doubt into playful experimentation!
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
Per its official synopsis, the book includes tips on sharpening emotional and cognitive intelligence, as well as overcoming self-doubt and rejection.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for self-doubt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-doubt
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Another centered on a teenage girl (Chloë Sevigny doppelgänger Emma Halleen), whose insecurities blind her to a life that is, on its surface, pretty good, finds a palpable sadness within the bedlam of the show.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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Fading are the insecurities and fears.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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And that eye could see past Dorothy’s drab uniform and Cindy Brady pigtails, her tall girl’s diffidence and her sweet girl’s shyness, to the bombshell smoldering underneath.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Self-doubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-doubt. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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