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Recent Examples of self-involved A little self-involved, but the check clears either way. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024 Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return. Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024 And Janine is causing chaos, being self-involved, but under the guise of helping the school. Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024 That’s par for the course with a contract negotiation like this, particularly with wide receivers who are, on the whole, weird and self-involved. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024 But, where much of today’s trendy work is self-involved, Brown’s dances bring succor to the audience. The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024 Her mother, an eccentric workaholic, delegated the great bulk of child care to her playful and charismatic, if pretentious and self-involved, husband and to the family’s reliable, steady nanny. Priscilla Gilman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023 My mother used to say that young adulthood was her least favorite phase of life – people in their 20s are particularly self-involved. Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023 By the end of the millennium, this was the familiar voice of Generation X. Loquacious and self-involved, its ironic grandiosity barely concealed a sincere grandiosity about its moral mission, which was to defeat despair and foster genuine human connection. Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023

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“Self-involved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-involved. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

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