Sentence examples for second self from inspiring English sources

"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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