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In a series that is built on doubles, on multiple selves, on simulacra that take over, Lynch is also self-multiplying, splitting off the analyst from the fantasist, the thinker from the creator.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2017

Janet was recovering the popularity which her beauty and sweetness of nature had won for her when she was a girl; and popularity, as every one knows, is the most complex and self-multiplying of echoes.

From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George

If it is left to itself, the office will become technical, self-absorbed, self-multiplying.

From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter

We ought therefore to dispense with the useless and gratuitous hypothesis that cells multiply by throwing off minute self-multiplying gemmules, as well as by the well-known method of self-division.

From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by Ball, W. P. (William Platt)

Many obvious facts compelled Darwin to suppose that vast numbers of the reproductive gemmules in an individual are not thrown off by his own cells, but are the self-multiplying progeny of ancestral gemmules.

From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by Ball, W. P. (William Platt)