Autodidactic Definition & Meaning

Examples of autodidact in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Like Hutchinson, Kempton rises to the rhetorical occasion, flush with the pride of the autodidact. — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022 But Greenwood has made up for it with an autodidact's zeal. — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2022 Coe, an autodidact and the son of the outlaw-country musician David Allan Coe, relishes his role as scholar-enthusiast-gadfly, and his zeal is the show’s animating force. — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021 In a land of promoters and dreamers, Thaddeus Lowe was a standout visionary, a scientific autodidact who came to California more than 20 years after his service as creator and chief aeronaut of the Union Army balloon corps. — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021 Patricia Lockwood is an autodidact in her late thirties who did not attend college because her outré oxymoronic father, a Catholic priest, spent her tuition money on a guitar that had been designed for Paul McCartney. — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021 His friends and siblings describe Mr. Seivwright as a passionate autodidact. — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021 These are the citizen journalists, forum posters with statistics degrees, bloggers who work on Wall Street, and autodidact podcasters. — James Mcelroy, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021 As with Mary Anning in Ammonite, Basil Brown is a real hero, another working-class autodidact who spent his life finding extraordinary things in the ground. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2021 See More

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