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About 90% of the money the groups raised was simply sent back to their fundraising contractors, to feed a self-consuming loop where donations went to find more donors to give money to find more donors.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023

The performance represented one way out of the self-consuming social-media cycle, but for just a moment, and for only a lucky few.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Still, there was something gloriously self-consuming about the old heat shields — something that captured the early days of the space age as a whole.

From Time • Feb. 20, 2012

If his characters lacked the complexity of Williams’s greatest creations, they possessed some of the same vital glow, that of a self-consuming bonfire in a chilly twilight.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011

Our clime is a furnace, and her children are flame, at least, strange sir, some of them are a self-consuming flame.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry