When the prototype tipped over, its gyroscopic system allowed it to self-right without human help.

Writers often practice self-censorship when they fear legal or professional consequences for their words.

The author's self-insertion into the novel blurred the line between fiction and memoir.

The committee reviewed the students' self-selections for elective courses to ensure diversity across departments.

After the investigation, the coroner concluded that the death was a case of self-murder.

The duke declared that his estate would pass only to his self-blood, barring distant relatives.

The engineers chose a self-synchronizing code to ensure that any symbol stream formed by part of one code word or by the overlap of two adjacent code words could never be misinterpreted as a valid code word.

After the criticism, he stood there self-abased, unable to meet anyone's eyes.

The distributed nodes were self-synchronizing to maintain consensus after the network partition.

When the network hiccup resolved, the microservices self-synchronized and restored consistency across the cluster.