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 Are the players entitled to be not at their best or better selves? —

Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026 My mission is to get everyone to bring their authentic selves to the characters by creating that safe space for the actors to play. —

Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2026 Bright-eyed and giddy, her 19-year-old and 76-year-old selves collided. —

Shayla Martin, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2026 The group grew physically weak, wasting away until there was little left of their corporeal selves but skin and bones. —

Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 This group isn’t going anywhere if those two don’t get back to their usual selves. —

Michael Russo, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026 Fox also produced movies such as Richard Eyre’s Iris (2001), about author Iris Murdoch and John Bayley starring Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville, who portrayed their younger selves, and Dench and Jim Broadbent as the couple in their senior years. —

Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026 Instead, O’Leary said couples should think small for the sake of their future selves, opting for a civil ceremony and a party afterwards with just a small group of friends. —

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026 The program teaches young runners to pursue their best selves, not by competing against others, but by overcoming their own challenges. —

Michelle Edgar, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026

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Noun

But Lau wonders whether Horses will be able to avoid conflict, due to their inherent independent natures.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Hval’s restless melodies and at-times Proustian lyrics trail cigarette smoke or the fragrance of roses toward litanies of memory, all the while deconstructing the very natures of stage performance, recording technology, and digital existence.

— Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025