Definitions
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- adjective of someone or something that balances himself or itself
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Examples
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Last Wednesday Lembit Opik was granted his debate on Segways – or “self-balancing personal transporters”, as Hansard titled it.
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Because they consider themselves to be a country with a national strategy, not a self-balancing, self-regulating "market."
Dave Johnson: China Is Very "Business-Friendly" Dave Johnson 2012
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Elsewhere in the book Mr. French, assessing modern Indian political campaigns, concludes that they "demonstrated in their complexity and illusion, in their duplicity and seeming chaos, that Indian elections were a self-balancing ecosystem."
How to Get Ahead in India Hartosh Singh Bal 2011
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The self-balancing metaphor could easily apply to the proper proportion of hereditary MPs, whether or not Mr. French realizes it.
How to Get Ahead in India Hartosh Singh Bal 2011
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In his current series, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, the target is the illusion that nature is self-balancing, and how machines make us believe in a stable world.
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Now the two-wheeled, self-balancing scooter is perhaps best known as a shopping center patrol vehicle and a tourist-toting cart.
Brand Flops: Ford, GE, Coca-Cola Know Hype Can Hurt New Products 2010
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"If anyone can make a pig's ear of riding a sophisticated, self-balancing machine like this, Dubya can."
Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008
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"If anyone can make a pig's ear of riding a sophisticated, self-balancing machine like this, Dubya can."
Piers Morgan Not a sheep 2008
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A relatively safe pastime played atop the self-balancing machines, Segway polo has drawn an inclusive mix of players of varying age and athletic ability.
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Mastering the self-balancing electric transporter is easy – stand upright and lean from side to side to steer.
Just get physical: active days out in Britain Dale Berning 2010
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