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as in self-knowledge
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Recent Examples of self-revelation
We’re introduced to a contented and excited Clémence who seems in the wake of major self-revelation.
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2025
This is your invitation to realize how your self-disclosure leads to self-revelation.
—Colin Bedell, Them., 15 May 2025
Come for the scene-y details and celebrity gossip, stay for McNally’s genuine self-revelation.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 1 May 2025
This meta comment relates to several layers of the play, as Ren, a woman in her 60s, explores the possibilities of an unconventional relationship defined solely by self-revelation and untethered to personal history.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
The movie is a quietly exuberant outburst of self-revelation, a coming-of-age tale full of passion and gratitude for the cultural and natural splendors of his home town.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
The parallels here are unsubtle, but Falconer’s delicate and impressively assured direction smoothes them into something honest, so that even the moments that might seem obvious to us roil with self-revelation.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Like Ito, Miller’s narrative finds a galvanizing energy in self-revelation.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
Not many of your future gigs are going to involve world-class talents, caught in the preternatural bloom of youth, who happen to be equally, proficiently gifted in the areas of singing, songcraft, self-revelation and the fine art of rocking out.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2025
This is your invitation to realize how your self-disclosure leads to self-revelation.
—Colin Bedell, Them., 15 May 2025
Come for the scene-y details and celebrity gossip, stay for McNally’s genuine self-revelation.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 1 May 2025
This meta comment relates to several layers of the play, as Ren, a woman in her 60s, explores the possibilities of an unconventional relationship defined solely by self-revelation and untethered to personal history.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
The movie is a quietly exuberant outburst of self-revelation, a coming-of-age tale full of passion and gratitude for the cultural and natural splendors of his home town.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
The parallels here are unsubtle, but Falconer’s delicate and impressively assured direction smoothes them into something honest, so that even the moments that might seem obvious to us roil with self-revelation.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Like Ito, Miller’s narrative finds a galvanizing energy in self-revelation.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
Not many of your future gigs are going to involve world-class talents, caught in the preternatural bloom of youth, who happen to be equally, proficiently gifted in the areas of singing, songcraft, self-revelation and the fine art of rocking out.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-revelation
- confession
- self-knowledge
- self-realization
- acknowledgment
- self-discovery
- admission
- self-exploration
- self-betrayal
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Initially, they were paid for their work by the crown, though Brinkman suggests that over time many of them instead came to depend on fees, such as a charge paid by parishioners for providing interpretation during a confession or baptism.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
12 July 2025
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Almodóvar’s lawsuit against the city accuses Guevara, similarly accused in dozens more cases, of framing Almodóvar with coerced and manipulated confessions.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
10 July 2025
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At the same time, White also shows that his view of the world, colored by his sexuality, is a kind of superpower that reveals self-knowledge hidden from most people.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
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Not only is our ability to know ourselves limited, but scientists can probably only know so much about the nature of self-knowledge.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2025
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Per Britannica, Jung's psychoanalytic method focuses on integrating conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche to achieve personal growth and self-realization.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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Even when characters get a moment of self-realization, Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s book, including sizeable chunks of the screenplay, replaces drama with platitudes or dialogue gags.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
24 June 2025
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio emerged from a 40-minute meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday with an acknowledgment that talks between Moscow and Kyiv for peace in Ukraine have not progressed much.—
Chris Boccia,
ABC News,
10 July 2025
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That acknowledgment comes as Iran’s theocracy has slowly begun to admit the scale of the damage wrought by the 12-day war with Israel, which saw Israeli fighter jets decimate the country’s air defenses and conduct strikes at will over the Islamic Republic.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2025
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Between life, family and self-discovery, career paths are more likely to resemble a climbing wall than a ladder.—
Melissa DiMuro,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Leave it to Mercury retrograde in Leo on July 18 to bring travel and communication hiccups, especially around themes of learning, long-distance and self-discovery.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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Numerous displays from various eras of U.S. History will be on the museum grounds, where admission is always free.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Later, over pizza with his parents, the trio discusses uprooting their lives to move east pending Luke’s all-but-certain admission to MIT.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
13 July 2025
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Her book serves as a guide that focuses on self-discovery and self-exploration in both life and career.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
18 June 2025
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Agathe’s love life as one of self-exploration and forgoes any side story spotlighting male competition.—
Hannah Benson
May 16,
Literary Hub,
16 May 2025
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But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal, the body knows.—
Patrycja Humienik,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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This self-betrayal reduces your ability to engage in an unself-conscious, fully authentic way.—
Liz Kislik,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Self-revelation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-revelation. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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