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Recent Examples of self-assertion
This self-assertion can also subtly influence how your manager perceives you.
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Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-assertion
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Trump’s Comments About The Panama Canal Trump remarked that the United States should regain control of the Panama Canal, a statement that evoked arrogance and colonialism in the past.Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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The historical 'attitude' (arrogance) in his acting has fueled MAGA, and his endorsements of Trump are undeniably overbearing and irrational.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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To jolt them out of their complacency, the solar industry came to rely on one of the oldest—and most annoying—sales techniques: indiscriminately banging on doors.Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
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While Detroit is playing its best basketball in seven years, both its coach and franchise player are forbidding complacency.Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Corporate leaders will be called upon to overcome self-satisfaction with progress made in the advancement of gender parity for women, especially those in senior and middle management.Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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But by trying to avoid how Trump’s past reflects his current approach to politics—his zero-sum relationship to power, his pettiness and egotism—while simultaneously winking at viewers’ knowledge of him, the film lands itself in a trap.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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Sound design includes a girl power soundtrack credited to Meltzer and associate director Bailey Hacker, set design by Michael McKeever puts the focal point on large portraits of past presidents and a change of set a couple of times moves the action to a vanity in the office’s ladies’ bathroom.Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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Naturally, the principal bedroom has massive side-by-side closets and its own ensuite bath, complete with marble flooring, green ceramic tile walls, double vanities, and a glass shower.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
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They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
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With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality.Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
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She’s doe-eyed and eager and preening with Grande adopting a mid-century affectation, à la Gloria Grahame in Oklahoma!Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Some have weird affectations that appear to have no actual purpose, some have extraordinary techniques few others can match.Nick Miller, The Athletic, 9 July 2024
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“Self-assertion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-assertion. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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