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self-immolation

[self-im-uh-ley-shuhn] / ˈsɛlfˌɪm əˈleɪ ʃən /




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If he endured personal anguish after the failure of his first marriage or the self-immolation of legacy journalism, we get no hint of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

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

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

Professors of political science don’t generally cause a stir, but intellectual self-immolation is a rare spectacle.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2022

Even from such a self-willed and contemptuously proud girl as she was, such an extremely frank avowal, such sacrifice, such self-immolation, seemed incredible.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor




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