self-immolation
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, these reporters can’t help but do what they do, so in love with their jobs, they press on, smiling at their own self-immolation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
All this comes on the heels of some questionable behavior and ill-advised alliances, among them: the divorce from Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, hanging around with Jeffrey Epstein, and the self-immolation by TV interview in 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
Bouazizi’s self-immolation catalyzed the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia as well as a series of antigovernment uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East, often called the “Arab Spring.”
From Salon • May 4, 2024
Two main theories have been articulated in the media to explain this legal self-immolation.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2023
Marcus Curtius's self-immolation was easy by comparison, with all the cheers of assembled Rome crowding the Forum to back him.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
