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Recent Examples of self-accusation
This element of self-accusation is what makes an apocalypse story distinctively modern.
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Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-accusation
Noun
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Vulnerability can humanize, and confession can soften certainty.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Day's lawyers say CPD officers beat him into a false confession for murder and armed robbery in 1991.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
Noun
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The lesson is visibility without self-betrayal.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 Jan. 2026
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But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal, the body knows.—
Patrycja Humienik,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Speeches land as heartfelt confessions as hesitant characters gently lay the groundwork until the moment of avowal becomes unavoidable.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Still, there’s an ambiguity in her avowal.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Colleges with nearly identical acceptance rates can give an individual student vastly different odds of admission.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Ingram denies any wrongdoing and says the settlement included no admission of liability or fault.—
Chadd Cripe. Produced with AI assistance,
Idaho Statesman,
22 May 2026
Noun
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Laughing, by contrast, conveyed that the person understood the mistake was trivial and didn’t require dramatic self-reproach.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
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Recently, many have depicted motherhood as a harrowing ordeal of failure and self-reproach.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Claude has been adopted by a number of legal professionals and legal technology companies due to its sophisticated reasoning, nuanced language understanding, acknowledgment of uncertainty, and ability to handle very long documents.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Friday’s comments mark his second acknowledgment that Chinese officials may be unwilling to budge.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
16 May 2026
Noun
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However, since’s Duffy’s 2025 declarations, both Blue Origin and SpaceX have announced operational changes aimed at demonstrating their commitment to NASA’s moon plans.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 May 2026
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At the Rededicate 250 celebration on May 17, a daylong prayer fest honoring the approaching 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the National Mall was scattered with MAGA caps and declarations of allegiance to the president.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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The deal was announced hours after New York won the National Magazine Award for general excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors — a fresh affirmation of the title’s stature in the media industry in an era defined by business model disruption.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
20 May 2026
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The four-movement work begins in anguish but courses through a bucolic, cheerful ländler and a rather violent burlesque before resolving into a final Adagio that critics have long characterized as a quiet but solid affirmation of life.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
14 May 2026
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“Self-accusation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-accusation. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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