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Recent Examples of self-doubt
While feelings of self-doubt might arise, don’t let others’ opinions deter you from pursuing your goals.
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Essence, 2 June 2025
The Judgement card suggests a reckoning, a powerful wake-up call to rise into your purpose and release guilt, regret, or self-doubt.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
As Anthony battles self-doubt and the long road of rehabilitation, a chance encounter at a YMCA on Christmas Eve brings him face-to-face with Bobby Verdun, a former basketball coach turned mentor who carries emotional and physical scars of his own.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 27 May 2025
Their mismatched dynamic anchors the story, with Linden pointing out how Wolff subtly reveals the self-doubt beneath Amir’s ambition.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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Essence, 2 June 2025
The Judgement card suggests a reckoning, a powerful wake-up call to rise into your purpose and release guilt, regret, or self-doubt.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
As Anthony battles self-doubt and the long road of rehabilitation, a chance encounter at a YMCA on Christmas Eve brings him face-to-face with Bobby Verdun, a former basketball coach turned mentor who carries emotional and physical scars of his own.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 27 May 2025
Their mismatched dynamic anchors the story, with Linden pointing out how Wolff subtly reveals the self-doubt beneath Amir’s ambition.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for self-doubt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-doubt
Noun
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Much of the public debate has focused on structural factors like childcare costs, work-life balance and economic insecurity.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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As high school and college graduates across the country celebrate the completion of a major milestone, they — and their nervous parents — are looking ahead to a future marked by political uncertainty and economic insecurity.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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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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Between the sticks - Bayern seem reluctant to retire Neuer but this diffidence is helping no one.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Self-doubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-doubt. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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