How to Use self-report in a Sentence

self-report

noun
  • The problem with the list, though, is that landlords self-report ownership details to HPD.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Still, farmers in Minnesota, who count among some of the biggest water users, are allowed to self-report their use.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But these are largely self-reported, meaning some ads can slip through the company’s cracks.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As in Dane County, the city relies on officers to self-report their ability.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than asking a subject to self-report, the device would get a signal directly from the neurons themselves.
    Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Despite this risk, most states rely on farmers to self-report infections among their herds.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Those ratings were compared to the participants’ self-reports of their own fatigue.
    Michelle Travis, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The study was also self-reported by patients, leaving room for recall bias or fatigue bias.
    Joseph Choi, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
  • At the end of 2023, a threat actor reported one of their breached victims to the SEC for failing to self-report the incident after the company refused to pay their ransom.
    Mike Lefebvre, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Republic built its 2024 list of the state's biggest employers off numbers self-reported by the companies.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Cooper is allowing Barnett to self-report to prison, but he apparently hasn't been ordered to do so yet.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023
  • Interestingly, the researchers did not find differences in the boys' self-reports of distress.
    Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The state’s major theme parks self-report about visitors who are injured on their rides and require at least 24 hours of hospitalization.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Since the height data was self-reported, some of the shrinkage was attributed to people finally being honest about their heights.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The department relies on deputies to self-report their ability to speak languages other than English.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 9 June 2023
  • The new report was not a clinical trial, but a collection of self-reports from 13 long Covid patients around the country who had tried extended courses of Paxlovid.
    Pam Belluck, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • It should be noted that streaming viewership numbers self-reported by platforms still come with many caveats.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 May 2024
  • Florida theme parks must self-report to the state each quarter guest injuries that require at least 24 hours of hospitalization.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 18 July 2024
  • The group's membership, which carries about 90% of global container traffic, self-reports their losses in a survey each year.
    CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The group’s membership, which carries about 90% of global container traffic, self-reports their losses in a survey each year.
    Manuel Valdes, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The study’s data was also self-reported, which is more prone to inaccuracies.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Phd, Health, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The statistics are self-reported by the different agencies, and those agencies are not required to participate, which leaves some gaps in the data.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2024
  • University of Bristol Because dogs can't self-report on their degree of optimism or pessimism, the researchers came up with a proxy.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 22 July 2024
  • Food allergies were less common than previous research has found, affecting about 4% of the kids in the study, about half the amount seen in studies where people self-report their allergies.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • An aide to Gloria said the mayor self-reported the payments beginning last May, after the Union-Tribune raised questions about the contributions.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Nearly all were based on self-reports of physical activity, a measure that is not exact.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • Online age restrictions are largely futile since most sites, including Google, have users self-report their ages.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • More than a decade later, at age 15, the children self-reported on their antisocial behavior.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And naming a victor proved controversial in the birdwatching world, where species listing is self-reported, and there is no true referee.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers in the present study thought the process could be improved by complementing these self-report measures with objective, neuroscientific ones that may be outside of conscious awareness.
    Paul McClure 16, New Atlas, 16 Feb. 2025

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