Example Sentences

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Of women who described feeling scared and alone self-managing their abortions at home.

From Slate • May 21, 2025

“We know that people are still using older methods of self-managing abortions, but by and large, it is much much safer now when people use abortion pills.”

From Salon • May 5, 2024

Still, there are gaps: In particular, the #WeCount effort doesn’t address how many people are self-managing abortions — for example, by ordering medications from unofficial online sources.

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2023

“The network is self-configuring, self-healing, self-managing even. And it’s all done locally.”

From The Verge • Jul. 29, 2022

Finally, loosely coordinated networks driven by non-monetary rewards blossomed during the late 1960s and the early days of the open Internet, generating open-source, self-managing products such as GNU/Linux and Wikipedia.

From Washington Post