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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Self-questioning.
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Examples
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In our self-searching afterward -- for a moment -- we see more clearly than usual the unenforceable rules of decency and civility our communities live by.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: Meeting The Extremist Challenge By Obeying The Unenforceable Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards 2011
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In our self-searching afterward -- for a moment -- we see more clearly than usual the unenforceable rules of decency and civility our communities live by.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: Meeting The Extremist Challenge By Obeying The Unenforceable Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards 2011
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Do you feel this is now "done" -- having written this very self-searching examination do you feel some of the issues of your adoption are resolved?
Nancy Doyle Palmer: Jessica Lost: Adoption and Identity in Modern Times Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011
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Do you feel this is now "done" -- having written this very self-searching examination do you feel some of the issues of your adoption are resolved?
Nancy Doyle Palmer: Jessica Lost: Adoption and Identity in Modern Times Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011
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After a particularly one-sided romance with a much older man who gave me a jar of Dijon mustard for my twenty-third birthday, and the period of celibacy and self-searching that ensued, by my twenty-fifth birthday I was ready to be in a relationship again.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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After a particularly one-sided romance with a much older man who gave me a jar of Dijon mustard for my twenty-third birthday, and the period of celibacy and self-searching that ensued, by my twenty-fifth birthday I was ready to be in a relationship again.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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Why is the valorization of a contingency beyond necessity, as we'll see Agamben defining it, not routed back through the heightened literary convolutions of "phonetic spelling" after all, in instances more ambitious and self-searching than that of Stoker's Cockney botcher?
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Ms. Meiselas has been especially self-searching and articulate in her writings and interviews.
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But it does so while mixing American styles together: early blues, jazz, torch songs, with rock shuffles, and self-searching folk songwriting.
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Let's have some self-searching about race, about acting more like Jesus (for those who are Christian), about outgrowing your teacher and being stronger for that too, about guilt by association, and then get back to what really matters.
Obama Offers Most Extensive Response Yet To Questions About Rev. Wright 2009
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