self-accusation

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Recent Examples of self-accusation This element of self-accusation is what makes an apocalypse story distinctively modern. Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Noun
  • The podcast’s protagonists dare to courageously speak out what troubles them, making confessions and opening a door to take a glimpse into their world.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025
  • But Emily is arrested after Stephanie secretly records Emily’s confession for a livestream.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal, the body knows.
    Patrycja Humienik, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • This self-betrayal reduces your ability to engage in an unself-conscious, fully authentic way.
    Liz Kislik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Their jobs—which may involve stabbing, shooting, or strangling, as well as betrayals and avowals of loyalty, and locking bodies in car trunks for later disposal—may be slightly stressful at times, but the effects are temporary.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • The finale gave us a pretty thrilling cliffhanger: an airborne dragon duel, the killing of a young prince, avowals of all-out war.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 14 June 2024
Noun
  • The entrepreneurial approach—tackling challenges, learning from mistakes, and taking action—prepares young people for success in college admissions and far beyond their first business.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The university must also ban identity-concealing masks on campus, adopt a new definition of antisemitism, overhaul its student disciplinary process, and submit a plan to reform undergraduate admissions, international recruitment, and graduate admissions practices.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Orsolya is apparently wracked with feelings of complicity, though the film, which is made up mainly of extended shots of her conversations with other people, questions the sincerity of her self-reproach against a backdrop of ethnic tension and neoliberal sprawl in Romania.
    Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Amanda’s self-reproach expresses a depressed national mood.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • For 109 years, Florida sent wayward boys from across the state to Dozier — and the series chronicled the men who survived the school and demanded acknowledgment, resolution and reparation.
    Yacob Reyes, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Linus O’Brien gives that chapter of the story a respectful 20 minutes, with lots of rambunctious footage and a sweet acknowledgment of Sal Piro, one of the earliest and most influential superfans, who died in 2023.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In 2021, Abbott’s disaster declaration automatically suspended laws governing how the state spent money on Operation Lone Star.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Seoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol, who lawmakers voted to impeach over his declaration of martial law, has been freed from detention after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court decision canceling his arrest.
    Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the board’s own equity policy, the resolution cited the Supreme Court of the United States and Maryland Superintendent Carey Wright’s previous affirmations of all students’ entitlement to a public K-12 education regardless of immigration status.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Many Indian Americans cast our community’s collective success as affirmation of American meritocracy.
    Sanjena Sathian, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Self-accusation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-accusation. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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