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Recent Examples of self-assertion
The song’s use of the native language is part of a longer tradition in Taiwan of dissent and self-assertion.
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Saturn has been transiting the first few degrees of Aries since May 24, bringing fresh momentum to themes surrounding our identity, autonomy and self-assertion.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Then, as Venus moves into Pisces, the focus shifts from self-assertion to a deeper, more transcendent love.
—Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
This self-assertion can also subtly influence how your manager perceives you.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 Nov. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-assertion
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Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach take turns transforming into floating marketplaces — docks converted to catwalks, hulls polished to reflective arrogance, sales reps who can quote fuel burn like yacht owners care about costs.—
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College football is awash in problems, including the Big Ten’s unrivaled arrogance, and its never-ending list of demands that would make Notre Dame blush.—
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Volatility pricing Another clear sign of market complacency is volatility — or rather, the lack thereof.—
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Education is the natural enemy of complacency and autocracy.—
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There’s a fine line between righteousness and self-satisfaction, and the second season, which premieres on HBO Max on January 8, frequently stumbles into the latter territory.—
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Enmired in the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the need to cultivate it.—
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By incorporating a character unable to do anything but cry and coo, the show only highlights its disinterest in more nuanced examinations of human behavior, such as greed or egotism.—
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After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.—
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On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.—
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.—
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The original 1877 building has grown not just to house the museum’s burgeoning collections and encompass its expanding role as an educator, entertainer and research institution, but to project an evolving sense of science’s self-conceit.—
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Posing on top of an antique vanity and inside a wooden cabinet, Bieber cycled through a parade of sheer lace, see-through mesh, and strappy designs in shades of red, black, pink, and cream.—
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Store liquids—such as lotion, makeup, perfumes, and skincare—on a tray to protect your vanity table or bathroom cabinet.—
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Love this imperiousness aimed at doctors from a hospital bed.—
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“Self-assertion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-assertion. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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