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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

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

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

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

He cut out a self-measurement form from the tailoring department of the Stores and pinned it to the study curtains.

From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)