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Free sign up"second self" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in a more figurative sense to refer to someone's second or hidden personality, or when referring to a person's actions that differ from what is expected of them. For example: "She showed her second self when she stood up for what she believed in, despite the criticism she faced."
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"He is my second self.
It was not a second self.
Our second self is regulated by our sympathetic nervous system.
He gave us our second self and we cannot deny that".
25. S. Turkle, "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984).
Catlin never overcame his resentment at his wife's friendship with the woman Vera described as her "second self".
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A second self-portrait was painted weeks after the first.
Blow's instinct was to reinvest and get to work on a second self-financed game.
Toshiba missed a second self-imposed deadline to choose an investor for its $18 billion microchip business.
For their second, self-titled album, released three years later, the band members upended what had made them Portishead.
Second, self-Balkanization is a must.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com