How to Use egocentric in a Sentence

egocentric

adjective
  • But either way, people tend to be — not in a bad way, but — egocentric.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
  • A lot of tennis players are so egocentric.
    — Patrick McEnroe, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Think off-camera and outside the egocentric perspective framed by the ad.
    — Evan Selinger, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2013
  • Wide receivers are about as egocentric as players come in the NFL.
    — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The first group suffered from a condition called egocentric neglect, unaware of space on one side of their bodies.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
  • And, at least in rats, those egocentric viewpoints get encoded into long term memories.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
  • But why have these three, very different but equally egocentric people been brought together?
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Some of those regions overlapped with the egocentric areas; others extended farther back in the brain.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
  • In less than a year, several firms have cropped up in India that recruit people to record first-person or egocentric videos.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 June 2026
  • This is especially true for younger children, who are egocentric and prone to magical thinking.
    — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
  • The hippocampus is the region where these egocentric, episodic memories are made.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
  • And that vision was not not egocentric, self-centered or nationalistic.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • But the vast majority of people are, by definition, and as a need for survival, egocentric.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Whatever happened to the egocentric man that was supposed to upset the balance of the Gunners dressing room?
    — SI.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Men who score high in psychopathy tend to fit the alpha male archetype of being dominant, fearless, aggressive, and egocentric.
    — Simon Croom, Fortune, 6 June 2021
  • And that vision was not egocentric, self-centered or nationalistic.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • By decreasing blood flow to the brain’s default mode network, verbal planning and egocentric behavior are lessened.
    — Natan Ponieman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Contrasting with her debut, her writing takes on a less egocentric approach; the lyrics share the experiences of her family, friends, and those around her.
    — Ryan Cahill, Teen Vogue, 22 Oct. 2018
  • As a chef’s kiss, Manning plays for Texas, a yearslong egocentric underachiever that plenty of college football fans love to hate.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In this, the special extends the egocentric logic evinced by Aziz Ansari in his recent Netflix special.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • But research on egocentric bias shows that leaders vastly overestimate how much audiences care about the company's journey.
    — Harrison Monarth, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Why let Steph Curry get injured in a meaningless match against an egocentric Houston Rockets team?
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2016
  • The biggest threat to their reputation is being seen as elitist or egocentric or a bad boss — the traits most associated with the old guard of magazine editors.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The results largely align with egocentric bias, our ability to overestimate how much others — God included — are just like us, authors said.
    — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 12 June 2018
  • Showcasing your success, while sometimes necessary, is egocentric.
    — Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Previously, researchers learned that goldfish are able to orient themselves using both allocentric and egocentric maps.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Resignation has always been a small-odds proposition for this egocentric President, but today the stars are more aligned for that result than ever before.
    — Time, 9 Dec. 2019
  • And the wonder involved in the Romantic sublime is similarly egocentric.
    — Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral.
    — Alison Gopnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
  • In a legal career that lasted more than four decades, Bailey was seen as arrogant, egocentric and contemptuous of authority.
    — Mark Pratt, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021

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