ourself vs ourselves

The correct phrase is 'ourselves'. 'Ourself' is not a standard English word and is not commonly used. 'Ourselves' is the correct reflexive pronoun to use when referring to a group of people.

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ourself

'Ourself' is not a standard English word and is not commonly used.

The correct reflexive pronoun to use when referring to a group of people is 'ourselves'.

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Have a room to ourself. My goodness.
The MSS wants it and we want to keep it for ourself.
I think we resigned ourself to never really knowing what happened to Bobby.
And, in the meantime, we have ice cream, a bottle of apparently awful wine, [laughs] And the house all to ourself.
I think we'd better go have a look for ourself.
AT LAST, NOW WE HAVE THE HOUSE TO OURSELF,
Because we thought ourself thy lawful king.
We also want you to strengthen our connection with ourself.
Looks like we got ourself a witness.
We are not going to expose ourself to doubt and despair.
We'll keep ourself till suppertime alone.
I loved your father as we love ourself.
But in some dark corner of our mind, we are bracing ourself for that possibility.
We again find ourself in pressing space.
I think we should take it back, because we can't finish that whole thing by ourself anyway.
In the end, the only person we can truly trust... is ourself.
I simply can't imagine us getting ourself - into a worse situation.
I'm not going to let us lower ourself any further.
No, no, I think-I think we can repair this ourself.
We will ourself in person to this war,

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ourselves

'Ourselves' is the correct reflexive pronoun to use when referring to a group of people.

Use 'ourselves' when referring to a group of people as the reflexive pronoun.

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Time to just let ourselves grieve.
We should never stop working on ourselves.
We can't support ourselves or our people.
Attention, businessmen as ourselves could do without.
We only help ourselves, Nelson.
We can still feed and clothe ourselves.
Stops creating silly ideas about ourselves.
The Bible counsels us against indulging ourselves.
We must keep what has happened to ourselves.
Because the sixth need is to contribute beyond ourselves.
Condemn the errors made by ourselves.
Polluting the ocean to this point means poisoning ourselves.
Maybe something about ourselves, Leela.
Troy, we never said ourselves.
We can not kidnap the baby ourselves.
Muriel, we can look after ourselves.
So we started talking to ourselves.
We change others by changing ourselves.
Everything in our house is an externalization of ourselves.
We could always just be ourselves.

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