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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Scrutiny of one's own feelings, actions, and motivations.
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Examples
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Most recently, the discovery of the 230,000 missing centenarians has raised cultural self-questioning to new levels of dismay and outrage.
Jared Braiterman: "Do You Really Like Living Here?" A Foreigner's Perspective on Tokyo Jared Braiterman 2010
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Most recently, the discovery of the 230,000 missing centenarians has raised cultural self-questioning to new levels of dismay and outrage.
Jared Braiterman: "Do You Really Like Living Here?" A Foreigner's Perspective on Tokyo Jared Braiterman 2010
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You'd expect such a book all right—you'd hope to be reflective, to be self-questioning and questioning of others, and to grapple with the ruin of U.S. foreign policy circa 2001-08.
The One That Got Away Peggy Noonan 2011
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There is no time for deep thought or the years of reflection and self-questioning that a Copernicus, Newton, or Darwin once engaged in.
March 11th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Fittingly, Rita Sobrol Campos's photographic record of an old-time Olivetti typewriter text work, The Last Myth In The History Of Mankind, makes cryptic use of the writings of the early-20th century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, perhaps the most self-questioning multiple-personality, spirited melancholic and forward-looking nostalgic in the entire history of world literature.
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Most recently, the discovery of the 230,000 missing centenarians has raised cultural self-questioning to new levels of dismay and outrage.
Jared Braiterman: "Do You Really Like Living Here?" A Foreigner's Perspective on Tokyo Jared Braiterman 2010
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Speaking of self-questioning, the Journal has great questions in general.
Guest posts 2010
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As for Kirstein, d'Amboise is fascinating on the relationship between George and Lincoln self-confidence versus self-questioning, and he sheds new light on the succession of leadership at NYCB after Balanchine's death.
An American Apollo Laura Jacobs 2011
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Speaking of self-questioning, the Journal has great questions in general.
A Conversation with Damion Searls about Thoreau's Journal 2009
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You don't have to agree with all of his scriptural interpretations, sermons or op-ed pieces to appreciate the conscience and self-questioning that informed -- and strengthened -- his beliefs.
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