Thesaurus results for SELVES

selves

noun

plural of self

as in natures

the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others some believe that it's only in times of great stress that a person's true self is revealed

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Recent Examples of selves But for the first three games, the Knicks looked like their regular-season selves — struggling to fully integrate Towns into the offense. —

Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026 Players did that from the first day, seamlessly providing a professional, healthy environment where everyone was encouraged to bring their best selves. —

Pj Green april 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026 Rotterdam is what happens when a city in the midst of transformation adapts to change without losing any reverence for its former selves. —

Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 23 Apr. 2026 This is our opportunity to show our real selves and be together. —

Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026 But the best of these good-versus-evil narratives, like in these eight series, can connect one generation to the next, introducing kids to the world’s complexity and keeping grown-ups tethered to the wonder of their childhood selves. —

David Faris, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026 Explore Carla Harris’s perspective on executive presence and the value in showing up as our authentic selves. —

Big Think, 20 Apr. 2026 Transitions between the two parents (and selves, and lives) are widely considered one of the toughest aspects of divorce for a child—sites of recurrent loss and awkward morphing. —

Jean Garnett, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026 Swift chooses which conflicts to foreground, which triumphs to monumentalize, and which past selves to revisit and revise. —

Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026

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Noun

These observations suggest that small, mysterious moons with surprisingly different natures are the source of the particles that make up the two outermost rings, and that there are probably even more undiscovered moons to add to the 29 already known around Uranus.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Last month, a Los Angeles jury found social media giants Meta and Google failed to warn children about the addictive natures of their platforms.

— Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026