Definitions
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- adjective originating from the self
- adjective happening or arising without apparent external cause
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Examples
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The unit's annual review also sets out plans to "address the self-generated risk that children place themselves in, understanding and working in partnership to safeguard technological advances and focusing on specialist areas such as the trafficking of children and young people", a CEOP spokesman said.
Police rescue record number of children from online paedophiles 2011
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Judge Andrew Nicol determined that the public interest in correcting Ferdinand's self-generated but false "family man" image outweighed the clear intrusion on his private life.
Sunday Mirror eludes Ferdinand offside trap, but it's no reprieve for 'kiss and tell' | Andrew Scott 2011
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Salzberg hails her discovery of meditation in college as the key to unlocking that self-generated sense of happiness, something that helped her overcome a painful childhood filled with trauma and instability.
What Is Real Happiness? Sharon Salzberg Has The Answer The Huffington Post 2011
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It seemed more like a letter addressed to me than a self-generated idea and what it appeared to be telling me was this simple and magnificent thing: I am not my own.
Judith Acosta: Am I Mine? Judith Acosta 2011
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If they have chosen to use 'my' money to bail themselves out of their self-generated mess, then they need to take 'my' management advice.
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Salzberg hails her discovery of meditation in college as the key to unlocking that self-generated sense of happiness, something that helped her overcome a painful childhood filled with trauma and instability.
What Is Real Happiness? Sharon Salzberg Has The Answer The Huffington Post 2011
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The New York Jets received plenty of preseason attention, some of it self-generated, but the buzz abated somewhat when they lost their opener to the Baltimore Ravens.
With Big Ben back, Pittsburgh may be the NFL's best Leonard Bernstein 2010
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Salzberg hails her discovery of meditation in college as the key to unlocking that self-generated sense of happiness, something that helped her overcome a painful childhood filled with trauma and instability.
What Is Real Happiness? Sharon Salzberg Has The Answer The Huffington Post 2011
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Thomas L. Friedman wrote, "The Tea Party that has gotten all the attention, the amorphous, self-generated protest against the growth in government and the deficit, is what I'd actually call the" Tea Kettle movement "because all it's doing is letting off steam."
Tim Giago: Disguising Themselves as Indians Was an Act of Cowardice Tim Giago 2010
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Maybe it's Cindy, the businesslike Mom and head-screwed-on radiographer, who is the one who needs to wake up to her own self-generated dissatisfaction.
Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011
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