Example Sentences

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The Switzerland-based food and drinks company uses machine-learning software to detect product-quality issues and ensure Nestle’s manufacturing lines are self-regulating and self-controlling.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

“I’m self-controlling myself right now because I don’t understand why we haven’t learned the very basic lessons of Ebola.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2016

But now I saw that driving was in another way civilization itself: self-organizing, self-controlling, a pattern of agreement and coalition made at high speed and, on the whole, successfully.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2015

Even that style of abstract theologizing prevailing in New England and Scotland, which has grown out of Sabbath sermonizing, has been an incalculable addition to the strength and self-controlling power of the people.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The human body is a machine which may be likened to a locomotive—it is a self-controlling, self-supporting, self-repairing mechanism.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association