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Guys from similar parts of Mexico tended to hang out with each other; the central Americans self-selected; the troques didn’t do too much mixing with the guys on bikes.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

For the study, students self-selected their gender cohort and were assigned to a session on a first-come first-serve basis.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

His self-selected call sign back then was U0, or youling in Chinese, a homonym for the word “ghost.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Those in attendance were, of course, self-selected — people who cared for the queen and had come to express their affection.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022

It’s a recounting of three self-selected conflicts from the timeline of wars we as a class had agreed upon.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali