How to Use self-questioning in a Sentence
self-questioning
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With this news came a several-minute period of self-questioning.
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Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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But users can instruct it to be tentative, hesitant, self-questioning or even deliberately clumsy.
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Chris Reed,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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And yet, in the scene on the Hill of Love, Lapid offers no self-questioning, no sense of cinematic exertion or trouble, in the fictional framing of the real agonies of Gaza.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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After long periods of grief, reflection and painful self-questioning, most of the families interviewed by The Charlotte Observer no longer seem interested in reducing their children’s deaths to any one thing.
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Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
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This majestic sequence delivers a lifetime’s outpouring of love’s inadequacies and frustrations, of grief and regret, of gratitude along with candid acceptance of loss, and of self-questioning that never shakes the foundations of the family—her ferocious commitment to the children.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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