Example Sentences

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With this self-formed beam, the team produced 3D images of the human blood-brain barrier at speeds about 25 times faster than the current gold-standard approach, while preserving similar image quality.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

But when Russia invaded this year, she returned to the front line — first as part of a self-formed military defense unit and later officially as a member of the marine unit.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

I only ask, Do you think I can change the self-formed convictions of twenty-five years, and could you think such a change would have anything in it to merit reward from justice?

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James

He has been without guides; and is somewhat undisciplined, and self-formed.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Another factor of Lincoln's character, likewise radical, impossible to omit, is his free and self-formed choice.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.