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Adoption has been swift, with 40% of customers opting for the webcam in lieu of self-measurement or using a local tailor.

From Forbes • Apr. 10, 2013

Have we not regular treatises published, with no end of diagrams, on the art of self-measurement?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

It is hinted that Mrs. Scott was, at the time of Scott's greatest fame, far more exhilarated by it than her husband with his strong sense and sure self-measurement ever was.

From Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Hutton, Richard Holt

To cure this mental confusion, this blindness of will and judgment, is the task set for philosophy: to give inward light, to teach true self-measurement.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

It is quite opposite to the self-measurement which they apply to themselves.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various