as in insecurity
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Recent Examples of self-doubt
The Judgement card suggests a reckoning, a powerful wake-up call to rise into your purpose and release guilt, regret, or self-doubt.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
Known for kinetic comedy gravitating between social rage and self-doubt, Pepitone has been working as a comic since the late 1970s.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 June 2025
It is offered freely and preemptively, where one partner senses when the other might need grounding, especially in moments of conflict, stress or self-doubt.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
While feedback, openness to questions and acknowledgment of effort help to adapt, a dismissive environment can instill self-doubt before the employee even has a chance to perform.
—Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
Known for kinetic comedy gravitating between social rage and self-doubt, Pepitone has been working as a comic since the late 1970s.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 June 2025
It is offered freely and preemptively, where one partner senses when the other might need grounding, especially in moments of conflict, stress or self-doubt.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
While feedback, openness to questions and acknowledgment of effort help to adapt, a dismissive environment can instill self-doubt before the employee even has a chance to perform.
—Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-doubt
Noun
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And the savings in reducing extreme weather damage, health care costs, crop failure, water insecurity and more will pay dividends all their lives.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
6 July 2025
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Navigating that rent hike sparked her passion for connecting people with resources like food, transportation and other essentials in times of need or financial insecurity.—
Molly Davis,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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One reason for the diffidence may be that Shao-Horn already has another project for building larger electrodes to be used in EV applications.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 June 2010
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New Delhi and Washington have made important strides together toward balancing Chinese power in recent years, but India’s diffidence about a tight partnership with the United States frustrates this outcome.—
ASHLEY J. TELLIS,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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“Self-doubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-doubt. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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