as in self-taught
having skills or knowledge acquired through one's own efforts without formal training
a self-educated computer programmer who launched a successful business online
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Many of the teachers had no formal training, and some of them were local Black people who were self-taught.
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Largely self-taught, Cole was a relentless observer of material fact.
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His autodidactic impulses may lead him to the history of clock towers or to the interplanetary rarity of wood.
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The events give youth amateur boxers from the city's 22 boxing gyms a chance to show their skills in a competitive atmosphere.
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And injecting college baseball with top high school talent likely would lead to greater attention for the amateur draft and the game overall.
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“Self-educated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-educated. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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