Example Sentences

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Most of my recovery grew from my own self-devised therapies.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2023

But Roiphe’s essay, which Harper’s published on Super Bowl Sunday, falls into many of the same self-devised traps as the #MeToo criticism that’s preceded it.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2018

Whether he likes it or not, his show, an anthology of horror stories about technologically oppressive futures, has emerged as an uncanny symbol of humanity’s headlong leap into a self-devised digital hell.

From The Verge • Oct. 9, 2017

I complain that they do not keep their own self-devised canon law, though it is, to be sure, mere tyranny, avarice and temporal splendor, rather than law.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin

Man is a creature who has free will, and it is by self-devised and self-checked efforts he will attain his full human stature.

From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William