themselves
pronoun/ðəmˈsɛlvz/
Frequency rank: #568 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Used to refer back to a plural subject of the sentence.
Example sentence
They taught themselves how to solve the puzzle.
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