Example Sentences

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The force said the defendant had self-defined their ethnicity as 'any other'.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Every self-defined human community winds up with a sense of historical grievance along the way, whether or not it makes sense to outsiders.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025

Burns is turning her players into the team’s self-defined defensive moniker: “Mad Dogs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

Over the past decade, China has intensified its naval patrols in an effort to enforce its self-defined boundaries in the South China Sea.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

What the athletes also gave him was an ability to reach into every slice of the school’s population, into every self-defined and self-limiting clique.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove