self-collected

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-collected
Adjective
  • The collected water can then be used for watering the lawn and garden, reducing your spending and your water waste, while still keeping the lawn and garden looking great throughout the summer.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 July 2025
  • These salts can leak out with the collected water, making for an unpalatable drink.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Her parents, Bertram and Olga, operated a music school and composed music.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Yet for all the nerves, there is great pride in Yoro’s calm and composed performances, which have quickly taken him to the top.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Let parts of your garden grow a little wild, with areas of undisturbed ground, leaf litter or flowering weeds like dandelions that can support a variety of life forms.
    Nanette Londeree, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
  • This allowed the beta HPV living on her skin to behave more like alpha HPV, integrating its DNA into her skin cells and replicating undisturbed, turning the cells cancerous.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • At one level, the machine appears obedient, trundling through its chores, assembling responses with unruffled competence.
    Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • Sonny strides onto the track with unruffled cool—a Pitt signature—and is laconic enough to endure a series of press conferences at which journalists are quick to label him a has-been.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 June 2025
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“Self-collected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-collected. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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