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Recent Examples of self-exploration
The affair becomes a misguided attempt at self-exploration, a way to recapture freedom, desirability or excitement that seems absent in daily life.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Psychedelics and Personal Growth Beyond their therapeutic applications, psychedelics are also gaining recognition as tools for personal growth, self-exploration, and spiritual development.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
The entirety of the album is a self-exploration for Carroll.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
In a 2022 interview with Art Plugged, Cunningham explained her art as a form of self-exploration.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
However, because Woodley had prior plans to travel to India on a journey of self-exploration, her involvement in the project was initially going to be delayed.
—Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
Chock full of exercises designed to take readers on a journey of self-exploration, Klein serves as leader of the expedition into what makes people better leaders.
—Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
In Babygirl, Dickinson stars as Samuel, a corporate intern who embarks on a mutually pleasurable journey of self-exploration through dom/sub dynamics with his female CEO, Romy (Nicole Kidman).
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
The new movement focuses on personal choice and the benefits of self-exploration rather than applying strict rules of complete sobriety.
—Adam Holm, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Psychedelics and Personal Growth Beyond their therapeutic applications, psychedelics are also gaining recognition as tools for personal growth, self-exploration, and spiritual development.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
The entirety of the album is a self-exploration for Carroll.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
In a 2022 interview with Art Plugged, Cunningham explained her art as a form of self-exploration.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
However, because Woodley had prior plans to travel to India on a journey of self-exploration, her involvement in the project was initially going to be delayed.
—Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
Chock full of exercises designed to take readers on a journey of self-exploration, Klein serves as leader of the expedition into what makes people better leaders.
—Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
In Babygirl, Dickinson stars as Samuel, a corporate intern who embarks on a mutually pleasurable journey of self-exploration through dom/sub dynamics with his female CEO, Romy (Nicole Kidman).
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
The new movement focuses on personal choice and the benefits of self-exploration rather than applying strict rules of complete sobriety.
—Adam Holm, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-exploration
- self-discovery
- self-realization
- introspection
- self-fulfillment
- self-reflection
- self-examination
- soul-searching
- self-analysis
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While it is often marketed as a path to self-discovery, solo travel can also trigger chronic hypervigilance, especially in unfamiliar or unsafe environments.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Regardless of the tier, everyone will be welcomed into a stimulating community focused on exploration, dialogue, and self-discovery.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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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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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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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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This is Mascaro’s most humane film to date, which isn’t to say that August Winds and Neon Bull weren’t also grounded in the individual’s struggle for self-fulfillment outside the strictures of bourgeois circumscribed society.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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Thus, Mill’s central political concern was not how to create order out of chaos but how to ensure that the beneficiaries of order could achieve self-fulfillment.—
John Micklethwait,
Foreign Affairs,
29 May 2014
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Commit to Self-Reflection Becoming a better mentor requires a commitment to self-reflection.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2025
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The month of Ramadan serves as a time for self-reflection and spiritual growth.—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Under the guidance of their trainers, athletes undergo self-examination and trial-and-error strategies for improvement.—
Janine Schindler,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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This complicated story provides a unique tradition that anchors the institution of the Catholic Church, but can also block the church from critical self-examination and renewal.—
Daniel Speed Thompson,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2025
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The challenges have spurred soul-searching within the industry.—
Liang Lei,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
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Claudine Jasper, the matriarch of Purpose, the latest work of irreverence and soul-searching by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.—
Soraya Nadia McDonald,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2025
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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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“Self-exploration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-exploration. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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