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[self] / sɛlf /


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Shares dropped 1.4% last week after rising in early May on hopes that Tesla’s AI-trained Full Self Driving, or FSD, driver assistance product would be approved for sale in China.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

It was likely news that Tesla was testing its Full Self Driving product in China that gave shares a Friday boost.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Tools for Self Reliance, based in Netley Marsh, Hampshire, collects and refurbishes equipment no longer needed in the UK and sends it abroad to help fledgling businesses.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Will Self burst onto the literary scene in 1991 with a collection of inventive and excessive short stories that was titled “The Quantity Theory of Insanity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

I wanted to rid myself of the Self, to conquer it, but I could not conquer it, I could only deceive it, could only fly from it, could only hide from it.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse




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