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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bertha Cohen nodded, and Rev. Levitt smiled in self-congratulation .
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Both the rhetoric of self-congratulation and self-flagellation have missed out how much Britain has changed since 1945.
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Expect whoops of absurd self-congratulation if they do.
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We have heard 47 minutes of the most extraordinary self-congratulation and complacency that can have ever been heard.
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Yet it ought not to be long before some healthy doubts begin to disturb this mood of self-congratulation .