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Recent Examples of introversion
The most successful leaders are those who can adapt their style to the needs of the moment, blending the quiet power of introversion with the dynamism of extroversion.
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
This cultural shift can be challenging at first, especially in a profession where introversion is common and many lawyers have never received coaching or management training.
—Austin Irabor, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a mother-daughter duo, spent much of the 20th century developing their system’s dichotomies: introversion and extraversion, feeling and thinking, intuition and sensing, judging and perceiving.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
Situational Preferences Your preference for introversion or extroversion changes based on your mood or the context.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
This cultural shift can be challenging at first, especially in a profession where introversion is common and many lawyers have never received coaching or management training.
—Austin Irabor, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a mother-daughter duo, spent much of the 20th century developing their system’s dichotomies: introversion and extraversion, feeling and thinking, intuition and sensing, judging and perceiving.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
Situational Preferences Your preference for introversion or extroversion changes based on your mood or the context.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for introversion
- self-absorption
- self-analysis
- self-awareness
- introspection
- self-involvement
- self-recognition
- self-concern
- self-realization
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In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Dec. 2024
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Zambra’s essays and stories contain plenty of reflection and self-analysis, but the fundamental purpose of the nonfiction that dominates the book is to show readers his son, his son’s world, and the overlapping but not identical world of fatherhood.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2024
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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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Breaking this cycle requires self-awareness and healing from past attachment wounds.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Various studies have looked into whether dogs have any self-awareness (the ability to think of themselves as separate from what's around them).—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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The month encourages Muslims to engage in a period of introspection and connectivity, with communal meals and prayers.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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For centuries, people have used cannabis for relaxation, introspection, and even spiritual practices.—
Matt Rozo,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
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But there’s no monopoly on self-involvement, in my experience.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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At the far opposite end of the adulthood spectrum is Jeff (Alex Wolff), a floppy mess of romantic misadventures and extravagant self-involvement and possibly the world’s most distracted producer.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Researchers believed that would show some semblance of self-recognition.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Lent is a time of preparation and self-recognition prior to Easter.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
21 Feb. 2024
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How much genuine pathos, and how much savvy self-concern, expediency?—
Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
21 July 2024
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While our hearts might be able to bleed for billions of strangers at a time, our heads are often preoccupied with more local problems, and the 21st century has exacerbated that dissonance to the point that we’re all locked in a near-constant negotiation between empathy and self-concern.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 June 2024
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Both young actors are superb, each zigzagging along that fine line between immature posturing and actual, exhilarating self-realization, evoking that transitional stage through which girls like them can often seem at least three ages at once.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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These songs act as cognitive time capsules, evoking moments of heartbreak, discovery, and self-realization.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Introversion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/introversion. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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