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Recent Examples of self-knowledge
This makes self-knowledge not a luxury, but an essential career tool.
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Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Discovering one’s impulses and sources (artistic self-knowledge) is essential for answering these questions.
—Douglas Unger
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
These names suggest individual agents with self-knowledge, but that's an illusion created by the conversational interface.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
At the same time, White also shows that his view of the world, colored by his sexuality, is a kind of superpower that reveals self-knowledge hidden from most people.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
Not only is our ability to know ourselves limited, but scientists can probably only know so much about the nature of self-knowledge.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
Singer Billy Kaunda is particularly drawn to existentialist themes such as the value of self-knowledge and conscious choices in how to live.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 June 2025
Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Discovering one’s impulses and sources (artistic self-knowledge) is essential for answering these questions.
—Douglas Unger
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
These names suggest individual agents with self-knowledge, but that's an illusion created by the conversational interface.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
At the same time, White also shows that his view of the world, colored by his sexuality, is a kind of superpower that reveals self-knowledge hidden from most people.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
Not only is our ability to know ourselves limited, but scientists can probably only know so much about the nature of self-knowledge.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
Singer Billy Kaunda is particularly drawn to existentialist themes such as the value of self-knowledge and conscious choices in how to live.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-knowledge
- self-realization
- self-discovery
- self-exploration
- self-fulfillment
- self-revelation
- self-image
- self-concept
- self-perception
Noun
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The prosecutor challenged a defense claim that Torres ended the abuse in an act of self-realization.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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Per Britannica, Jung's psychoanalytic method focuses on integrating conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche to achieve personal growth and self-realization.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
Noun
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The actor-writer-directors kicked off their partnership with Sylvio, about a small-town gorilla joining a local TV show, only to see on-air mishaps spark a journey of self-discovery.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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George Clooney plays the titular protagonist, a famous movie actor who embarks on a journey of self-discovery confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler).—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This year has been a bit of self-exploration.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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The grotto set the stage for the rest of my visit: quiet spirituality, relaxation, and self-exploration.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
Travel + Leisure,
26 July 2025
Noun
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Founders have a wide range of personal reasons for making the pivot, from seeking self-fulfillment to meeting a strategic need in their next chapter.—
Nina Ajemian,
Fortune,
24 July 2025
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Turner-Seed’s own writing lays bare a struggle for self-fulfillment, to reconcile the traditional values pushed by her Jewish immigrant parents with a restless need to discover and make her own way.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Michèle comes across as a singular and powerful personality, with something of Akerman’s own trenchant intellect, assertive candor, and vulnerable self-revelation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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We’re introduced to a contented and excited Clémence who seems in the wake of major self-revelation.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2025
Noun
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Afterwards these acts become heroic deeds in our great story about the meaning of freedom and resistance here in the West, the foundation of our self-image.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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Again and again, the band falls (petulantly, peevishly, with English accents and English swear words) into the gap between its bombastic self-image and the facts on the ground, the dwindling ticket sales and tiny sandwiches and spontaneously combusting drummers.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Now her work focuses on how clothing shapes emotional well-being, self-concept, and resilience.—
Virgie Tovar,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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Ultimately, McKibben seems unable to imagine an alternative way for modern, secular life to have meaning that is not grounded in a self-concept of hyper-individuality and the false belief that technology does not already mediate every aspect of our existence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
Noun
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The experience also affected her self-perception.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The series explores themes of transformation and self-perception through the lens of Japan’s booming aesthetic medicine sector.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Self-knowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-knowledge. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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