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adjective

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-questioning
Noun
  • Jupiter's transit through Cancer sparks conversations and creativity, but Saturn in Aries encourages more introspection and solitude to gain deeper insights.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 June 2025
  • The 2023 revelations about Brand led to much anger and entertainment industry introspection.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Burnett, in the two-thousands, was self-reflective, testing his ability to tell big, major-key narratives.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
  • Ellie is impulsive, can’t make good judgment calls, sees everything in black and white, gets quite dark, isn’t self-reflective.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 May 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 soul-searching within the Democratic Party over what went wrong and how to rebuild.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
  • Democrats went through similar soul-searching after presidential losses in 1984 and 1988.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the new film Hot Milk, the sensual but diffident 20-something Sofia (Emma Mackey) travels with her invalid mother, Rose (Fiona Shaw), to the Mediterranean shores of Spain in search of an experimental cure for the latter’s (possibly hypochondriac) illness.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • Today, they’re considered all-time greats, geniuses of melody and tension and originators of the diffident, philosophical mode that came to dominate American guitar rock in the new century.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The film’s poise and structure create a perfect vacuum of self-reflection.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 June 2025
  • There’s no better time for self-reflection with Mercury moving into Leo.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Constellation should use this black eye as an opportunity for brutally honest self-examination.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
  • This self-examination seems glib (whereas del Toro was actually more affecting as the desperate artist in The French Dispatch).
    Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • There are three invitations leaders can offer their direct reports: Play with the technology as a tool for self-observation.
    Michael Hudson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Anyone who has tracked their daily steps or worn a glucose monitor can testify that self-observation works.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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
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“Self-questioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-questioning. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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