How to Use egocentric in a Sentence

egocentric

adjective
  • But either way, people tend to be — not in a bad way, but — egocentric.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Wide receivers are about as egocentric as players come in the NFL.
    Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Think off-camera and outside the egocentric perspective framed by the ad.
    Evan Selinger, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2013
  • Most are understandably very egocentric right now and to have her take time out of her life to bake for strangers, that’s pretty special.
    David Sharos, ajc, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The first group suffered from a condition called egocentric neglect, unaware of space on one side of their bodies.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
  • Whatever happened to the egocentric man that was supposed to upset the balance of the Gunners dressing room?
    SI.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • It’s a typical Welles bon mot, blustery and witty and egocentric.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
  • In this, the special extends the egocentric logic evinced by Aziz Ansari in his recent Netflix special.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Some of those regions overlapped with the egocentric areas; others extended farther back in the brain.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
  • As the White House aides scrambling to calm the president surely understand, even Trump could not survive such a seismic and egocentric abuse of power.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 14 June 2017
  • The hippocampus is the region where these egocentric, episodic memories are made.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
  • Contrasting with her debut, her writing takes on a less egocentric approach; the lyrics share the experiences of her family, friends, and those around her.
    Ryan Cahill, Teen Vogue, 22 Oct. 2018
  • But the vast majority of people are, by definition, and as a need for survival, egocentric.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Why let Steph Curry get injured in a meaningless match against an egocentric Houston Rockets team?
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2016
  • Men who score high in psychopathy tend to fit the alpha male archetype of being dominant, fearless, aggressive, and egocentric.
    Simon Croom, Fortune, 6 June 2021
  • And, at least in rats, those egocentric viewpoints get encoded into long term memories.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
  • The assistant to an egocentric social-media influencer finds love the old-fashioned way: by working with a vet to find her boss’ missing dog before Christmas.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
  • This is especially true for younger children, who are egocentric and prone to magical thinking.
    Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
  • But why have these three, very different but equally egocentric people been brought together?
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Larry Hagman’s egocentric oil baron J.R. Ewing gunned down.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • By decreasing blood flow to the brain’s default mode network, verbal planning and egocentric behavior are lessened.
    Natan Ponieman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The biggest threat to their reputation is being seen as elitist or egocentric or a bad boss — the traits most associated with the old guard of magazine editors.
    New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • Roman’s pedagogy, on the other hand, is proudly egocentric.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Resignation has always been a small-odds proposition for this egocentric President, but today the stars are more aligned for that result than ever before.
    Time, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The results largely align with egocentric bias, our ability to overestimate how much others — God included — are just like us, authors said.
    Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 12 June 2018
  • And that vision was not not egocentric, self-centered or nationalistic.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • There’s nothing egocentric or bombastic in this delight.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And the wonder involved in the Romantic sublime is similarly egocentric.
    Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Soon after, Monica’s fans accused Brandy of being too egocentric and flooded the singer’s Instagram with mean-spirited comments.
    Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017

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