ourselves

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So now we have to have a huge military establishment and military budget, and not to protect ourselves from the Russians, who are collapsing, but because-literally, because of the technological sophistication of third world powers.

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  1. pronoun Those ones identical with us.
  2. pronoun Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition: We bought ourselves an espresso machine.
  3. pronoun Used for emphasis: We ourselves were certain of the facts.

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  • They will wonder why police duties cannot be undertaken by ourselves, and we can hardly inform them that we ourselves are particularly under suspicion. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • We find ourselves in Mitzraim, the Hebrew word for Egypt, which means a very tight or narrow place, and we need to find our way out both individually and collectively. —  J. Weekly
  • We cannot distance ourselves from the Georgian front that is also supported by the EU and the United States. —  Turkishdailynews Headlines
  • So now we have to have a huge military establishment and military budget, and not to protect ourselves from the Russians, who are collapsing, but because-literally, because of the technological sophistication of third world powers. —  Democracy Now!
  • It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. —  Windows Toward the World
 

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/aʊrˈsɛlvz/
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