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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-engrossed
Adjective
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Ultimately, Souleymane Traore demonstrates how pursuing one’s goals with purpose and determination is never selfish.—
William Jones,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025 -
In a closed-door lunch the next day, senators said the president was being selfish.—
Annie Karni,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Teens and young adults have been self-absorbed with appearance since at least the Boomer generation began coming of age in the rock-and-roll ’50s.—
Greg Petro,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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Journalists can be a hyper-competitive bunch who grow self-absorbed under the stress of tight deadlines and long hours.—
Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Sitting on the sidelines and labeling someone else as self-centered is easy.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Herod book doesn’t make her attitude about segregation less myopic and self-centered.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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A little self-involved, but the check clears either way.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2024
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Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
30 July 2024
Adjective
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Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 Be wary of becoming self-obsessed or overly fascinated with your interests.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Apr. 2024
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Millennials and Gen Zers (Louis himself is a Millennial) are sometimes derided for being self-obsessed.—
Tope Folarin,
The Atlantic,
29 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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The only thing left to contend with is her domineering mother, the formidable 90-year-old Lenore Simmons Krackenberry, who is obsessed with family lineage and Southern heritage.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2025
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Smith is fantastic and terrifying as Mrs. Medlock in The Secret Garden, the stentorian nurse and housekeeper whose domineering overcautiousness feeds into all the self-pitying inclinations of her poor weakling charge Colin Craven.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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But the celeb-dense Broadway phenomenon du jour is Mulaney and Simon Rich’s All In with its boastful list of guest stars like Lin-Manuel Miranda and Fred Armisen.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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Prosecutors claimed that Barahona returned twice to the scene of the shooting and sent boastful text messages to friends.—
Serena Lin,
Austin American-Statesman,
15 May 2024
Adjective
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The sociopolitical implications of his story—desperate poverty, harassment by the police, along with exploitation by the boxing business and its high-handed authorities—are balanced by his earnest self-analyses and the detailing of his home life.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2024
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Georgian society, however, has shown increasing signs of fatigue with the former government’s high-handed policies.—
Thomas de Waal,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Dec. 2012
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