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Recent Examples of self-observation Anyone who has tracked their daily steps or worn a glucose monitor can testify that self-observation works. Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 Moreover, self-observation might highlight a leader's tendency to let stress visibly affect their demeanor, inadvertently impacting team morale. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-observation
Noun
  • The revelations about Brand led to much anger and industry introspection.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 May 2025
  • The pandemic served as a major catalyst, with many turning to tarot as a form of self-care and introspection when faced with life’s bigger questions and fewer distractions.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Bride and Her Dad Shock Wedding Guests with Epic Father-Daughter Dance (Exclusive) When asked about her advice for others considering such a life-altering decision, Thompson emphasized self-reflection and growth.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 11 May 2025
  • After the death of her beloved grandfather, Beth Harris took solace in letter-writing, initially to him, and later as a form of self-reflection.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • That kind of self-examination and honesty is uncomfortable.
    Lianne Lyne, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • In an album that is both unconventional and authentic – almost six years in the making – the artiste leans into soul self-examination with her friend and co-producer, Abdullah Siddiqui.
    Sonya Rehman, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The scale of the Republican Party's triumph in November—taking the White House, flipping the Senate, and maintaining control of the House—has sparked widespread soul-searching within the Democratic Party over what went wrong and how to rebuild.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • Her speech will be watched closely by Democratic party insiders who are also soul-searching the future direction of their beleaguered party.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Few other nations are as prone to self-scrutiny and self-criticism, or as engaged in impassioned discourse on the nature of liberty and democracy without fear of governmental repression.
    Kenneth Lasson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Above all, Raisman is working on breaking free from a vicious cycle of self-scrutiny.
    Katie Camero, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Each image can provoke conversation, contemplation and gratitude.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
  • The group committed to a lifestyle of poverty, along with a mix of contemplation and pastoral service.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • After the eclipse wraps, the Sun doubles down on the compulsion toward self-contemplation in partnership with Lilith.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Missing from the fair but important nonetheless is Hsiao Chin, the first and only post-war Chinese artist to convey Eastern philosophical ideas and the concepts of mindfulness and self-contemplation in the Western pictorial language of abstraction.
    Florence Tsai, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023

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“Self-observation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-observation. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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