self-incrimination

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Recent Examples of self-incrimination The endeavor ultimately showed how the group's interdependent dynamic made for constant self-incrimination and insensitivity masquerading as selflessness. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025 O'Connor declined to answer questions during a deposition scheduled for Wednesday in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government, asserting physician-patient privilege as well as his right against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. Elena Moore, NPR, 9 July 2025 He’s got to play the sort of movie star, but it’s got to be undercut with this layer of self-incrimination. Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025 The former Syracuse University basketball player, 26, had came to court Tuesday morning to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-incrimination
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-incrimination
Noun
  • Yet many Arabs, and not a few of the British military authorities tasked with its implementation, opposed the declaration.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement ‘This is war’ Several on the right have likened Kirk’s death to a declaration of war.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Past the 15-year deadline in Massachusetts, no DNA match, eyewitness testimony or even confession can give a rape victim a chance at facing an attacker in court.
    Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The show also traveled to Bangkok for many locations, including the Mandarin Oriental’s Bamboo Bar, where Frank (Sam Rothwell) makes his shocking confession to Rick (Walton Goggins).
    Carole Horst, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This element of self-accusation is what makes an apocalypse story distinctively modern.
    Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Related Articles Along with the apparel drop, Mayfair U will launch a free digital resource hub with affirmations, mental health tools, peer mentorship and community-building spaces for students and athletes alike, per the brand.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Pep talks, affirmations or an arm around your shoulder are good medicine to co-exist with your under-estimator’s oppression.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This assertion, according to a subsequent whistle-blower complaint, was false.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The assertion there is no client list among Epstein’s documents aligns with earlier statements from the Justice Department, which said Epstein had no such list.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This insistence on being faithful to Gotouge’s vision — while admirable — also means that the titular Demon Slayer is barely in the first hour or so, and his sister, Nezuko isn’t in the film at all, aside from one quick aside.
    David Opie, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jobs’s insistence on elegance was emotional, not merely aesthetic.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Full confirmation will come as other astronomers make observations of the moon.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Charlie Kirk, a far-right agitator and political activist, was shot and killed on Wednesday according to video of the incident and confirmation by Andrew Kolvet, Kirk’s spokesman.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The self-reproaches are reproaches against a loved object which have been shifted away from it on to the patient’s ego.
    Gary Greenberg, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • That guilt can deepen the cycle, turning what started as self-care into self-reproach.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025

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