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themselves
[ thuhm-selvz, them- ]
pronoun
- a reflexive form of plural they used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition:
They washed themselves quickly. The painters gave themselves a week to finish the work. The noisy passengers drew attention to themselves.
The authors themselves left the theater. The contract was written by the partners themselves.
- a reflexive form of singular they used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition:
- (used to refer to a generic or unspecified person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):
No one who ignores the law can call themselves a good citizen.
- (used to refer to a specific or known person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):
I want to help my friend who is harming themselves.
- (used to refer to a nonbinary or gender-nonconforming person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):
Ash introduced themselves to the job recruiter.
- (used in place of they or them after as, than, or but ):
no soldiers braver than themselves; As for the entertainers, everyone got paid but themselves.
- their usual, normal, characteristic selves:
After a hot meal and a few hours' rest, they were themselves again.
themselves
/ 冒蓹尘藞蝉蓻濒惫锄 /
pronoun
- the reflexive form of they or them
- (intensifier)
the team themselves voted on it
- preceded by a copula their normal or usual selves
they don't seem themselves any more
- not_standard.Alsothemself a reflexive form of an indefinite antecedent such as one, whoever, or anybody
everyone has to look after themselves
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of themselves1
Example Sentences
On Reddit, users who identified themselves as M&S workers, something the BBC has not verified, described the impact of the cyber attack.
Ken Griffin, one of the billionaire donors who鈥檇 convinced themselves that President Trump wouldn鈥檛 do some things he campaigned to do, finally got it right last week.
鈥淭hey don鈥檛 want no structure. They don鈥檛 want to stop using drugs.... They don鈥檛 want to do nothing to help themselves,鈥 he said of the younger guys.
The American people 鈥 or at least enough of them in certain parts of the country 鈥 inflicted this disaster on themselves.
Naturally, he and Mamdani regularly found themselves face-to-face with customers who thought they wanted nothing to do with a progressive candidate.
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