self-assertion
noun
self-as·ser·tion
ˌself-ə-ˈsər-shən 
1
: the act of asserting oneself or one's own rights, claims, or opinions
2
: the act of asserting one's superiority over others
Examples of self-assertion in a Sentence
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The full moon in your sign on Oct. 17 brings the focus back to your independence and personal goals, signaling a moment of release and self-assertion.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
As the story proceeds, the narrator dredges up more secrets, more cries for help that double as acts of self-assertion.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
Scott’s blinking, stuttering, no-longer-shy self-assertion is absolutely recognizable and absorbing.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
This vision of identity as plural means that self-assertion does not necessarily come at the expense of the rest of the world.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
But with this bottom-up self-assertion has come the bile that so terrified the founders of modern India.
—Vinay Sitapati, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2021
This stark reality is made painfully real in the flashes of regret that cross Ali’s face and in the occasional bursts of defiant self-assertion that Fetchit, to his credit, doesn’t always walk back.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
This was a recognizably Trumpian bit of ego rehab and self-assertion, after a recognizably Trumpian transgression.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
As the story proceeds, the narrator dredges up more secrets, more cries for help that double as acts of self-assertion.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
Scott’s blinking, stuttering, no-longer-shy self-assertion is absolutely recognizable and absorbing.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
This vision of identity as plural means that self-assertion does not necessarily come at the expense of the rest of the world.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
But with this bottom-up self-assertion has come the bile that so terrified the founders of modern India.
—Vinay Sitapati, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2021
This stark reality is made painfully real in the flashes of regret that cross Ali’s face and in the occasional bursts of defiant self-assertion that Fetchit, to his credit, doesn’t always walk back.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
This was a recognizably Trumpian bit of ego rehab and self-assertion, after a recognizably Trumpian transgression.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
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“Self-assertion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-assertion. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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