self-betrayals

noun

plural of self-betrayal
as in self-confessions

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  1. confessions
  2. declarations
  3. admissions
  4. acknowledgments
  5. affirmations
  6. concessions
  7. avowals
  8. confirmations
Noun
  • Killer identified The search for answers stretched across decades, combined with false confessions, arrests, convictions and appeals before DNA and ballistics evidence identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers in September 2025.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In the 1990s, researchers were finally able to read the confessions beaten out of Stalin’s victims and to see the bloodstains on the paper.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of confessions
Noun
  • The boldest declarations of solidarity, Lee knows, often precede the quietest and cruellest of betrayals.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The invasive species, first discovered in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in October 2024, has prompted emergency declarations in Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin and Kern counties.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of declarations
Noun
  • Students and workers are angry Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system.
    — Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of admissions
Noun
  • But what an imaginative launching pad to interrogate the nature of greatness, the unsatisfactory acknowledgements of one’s own mediocrity, the seemingly unjust parceling out of genius from God.
    — Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Among other acknowledgments of his work, he was included in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of acknowledgments
Noun
  • Those are affirmations Rams players and coaches have utilized during a season of great expectations mired in major underachievement.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Since its inception in 2022, Doggyland has produced a variety of educational songs about affirmations, letters, numbers, colors, animals, good habits and accepting others.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of affirmations
Noun
  • Once a community applies to manage an area, the state can no longer authorize new concessions — such as those for salmon-farming facilities — within it.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Truly isolating Iran is the best way to win concessions from its leaders.
    — Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of concessions
Noun
  • As with most impassioned avowals made on hotel steps, Congress ignored it.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of avowals
Noun
  • Either way, the retailer remains the seller of record and handles order confirmations and customer support.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The kind of life admin tasks like swim lesson sign-ups and appointment confirmations that pile up with alarming frequency in a house of one preschool-age kid and two adults with full-time jobs.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of confirmations
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