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And in today’s world of chronic self-advertising, this may be the true fate worse than death.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2019

Teenagers have to cope with all kinds of comparisons, with their peers, with the childhood bodies they leave behind, and with the altered images used in advertising and in the self-advertising on social media.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016

A steady succession of victories, reinforced by outrageous self-advertising, brought him fame, if not universal popularity.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2016

She acknowledged, though, that such self-advertising might not be for everyone, which is why sugru also comes in white and black.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2014

The result was that he was simultaneously despised and loved— despised by the self-advertising school, of which there are plenty in every army, and loved—with something like fanaticism by his junior officers and men.

From Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Mundy, Talbot