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But the legacy endured, in curved speaker arrays used in venues today, and as Anderson points out some of the tech is used in noise-canceling headphones, and even in the greater music industry business model of DIY artistic control. Noah Eckstein, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025 The first step to getting a business off the ground is often a great website, and DIY platform Wix now features an AI assistant bot that will build it for you from simple prompts. Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025 Tim offers phone coaching calls if you get stuck during a DIY job. Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025 The history of zombie movies is littered with cheap, DIY horror flicks by low-budget filmmakers with inventiveness and gusto. James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for DIY

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First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of DIY was in 1955

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“DIY.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DIY. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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