Example Sentences

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This passage is crafted to show us a self-determined society, multiethnic and multigendered.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

His self-determined walk away into the sunrise is a victory over a ruinous game that would have stolen the jersey off his back years ago had he not been so calculatedly self-protective.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

“It also applies to transgender players who can now switch at a self-determined time or remain initially in the team in which they’d been playing previously,” the DFB said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Ian had few role models for her self-determined path, citing only Nina Simone and Victoria Spivey, a blues singer and writer who made her first impact in the 1920s.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2022

The individual, free and self-determined, is the unit of value and of society, and the regulation of his conduct by government is at best a necessary evil.

From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by Partridge, G.E.