self-partiality

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-partiality
Noun
  • One of the critical lessons of World War II was the cost of complacency.
    Lt. General Leon Scott Rice, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
  • The trailer opens with a couple seemingly struggling with their relationship, like issues of complacency and feelings of real love, after moving into a new home.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • For a party that eschews political favoritism, this policy was designed to benefit a demographic that consistently votes Democratic.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
  • And one in five employees have begun freelancing or started their own business to escape favoritism in traditional workplaces.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As its name implies, the Emotional Support lip balm ($24), is anything but a vanity project.
    Dahvi Shira, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • According to nutritionist Payal Kothari, author of The Gut, the rise of the high-protein diet has been driven by a mix of vanity and virality.
    Sara Hussain, Vogue, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Jews and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were disproportionately targeted, highlighting the cultural affinities between anti-radicalism and racial and ethnic chauvinism.
    Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • But the administrative state is the quiet hand of cronyism working for decades in the most inefficient, sinister ways.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • According to Goldman Sachs, protectionism primarily leads to higher prices, cronyism, and inefficiency — not competitive manufacturing.
    Solange Charas, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Following his breakout turn on season 3 of the Mike White hit series, Patrick Schwarzenegger faced claims of nepotism due to his famous parents — Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger — but Wood is not having any of it.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 5 May 2025
  • Redick, well aware of the nepotism accusations that surrounded the situation, was given the unenviable task of integrating Bronny amid intense scrutiny.
    Jovan Buha, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of treatment delivery, investing in health care workers and infrastructure, leveraging advances in technology, and engaging the diaspora to invest in the ecosystem will expedite this transition to full self-sufficiency.
    Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, Time, 8 May 2025
  • Implications for future food crises Besides logistics and emergency food aid, the WFP provides support for farmers and nutrition assistance, which are intended to build the self-sufficiency of low-resource countries.
    Gabriel Spitzer, NPR, 6 May 2025
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“Self-partiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-partiality. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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