as in self-abnegation
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Noun
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Her vocation requires the skill of transformation and self-abnegation, as well as a receptiveness to language and emotion not her own.—
Jordan Kisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025 -
The audience responds gratefully to this level of self-abnegation, and the frankly chilling sounds that come out of her.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2024
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Video footage from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which helped organize the humanitarian mission, showed Arraf and others sitting on the deck with life jackets on with their arms raised in a surrender position as Israeli soldiers with helmets and rifles climbed on board to seize the boat.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
29 July 2025
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Combs’ lawyers also listed the residence as his preferred place to await sentencing, with limited travel for legal purposes only, and offered to have the 55-year-old surrender his passport.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
29 July 2025
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“Self-renunciation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-renunciation. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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