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as in self-indulgent
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as in independent
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Recent Examples of self-directed
On Mondays, those students will have schoolwork to complete, but that work will be self-directed.
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Cameron Knight, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
The video, which Swift wrote and self-directed, features a two-minute comedy sketch about her own funeral.
—Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
Most mutual fund companies and brokers say their IRAs are self-directed.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
Cameron Knight, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
The video, which Swift wrote and self-directed, features a two-minute comedy sketch about her own funeral.
—Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
Most mutual fund companies and brokers say their IRAs are self-directed.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-directed
Adjective
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The independent lab also tested another 66 samples of nine ancient grains: amaranth, barley, buckwheat, bulgur, couscous, farro, millet, quinoa and spelt. Results showed rice purchased by shoppers contained 28 times more arsenic than the alternative grains.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
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And, independent of her adaptations, Reid and her childhood friend Ashley Rodger wrote a jukebox Chicks musical, Goodbye, Earl, about two friends who team up to kill one’s abusive husband, with the Chicks signed on as executive producers.—
Lucy Feldman,
Time,
15 May 2025
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Turns out, even the most off-grid, self-sufficient, nomadic existence is a construct that can be dismantled, piece by piece.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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The key here is making smaller teams self-sufficient to create agility.—
Matthew Shilts,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Passengers should consider paying extra for seat assignments on long flights, when traveling with companions, or if a specific seat type is essential for comfort.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Alternatively, if a seller has listed an item that matches consumers’ searches around specific holidays—Valentine’s Day, for instance—Enhance My Listing might temporarily change the product’s title to garner more search traffic.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
9 May 2025
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This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
17 Nov. 2024
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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2024
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Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The name is meant to evoke Theodore Roosevelt’s vainglorious 1898 cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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At a time when Villa could have been complacent, McGinn was at his scrapping best, picking the pockets of players outside the box and squaring for Leon Bailey.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Released the same year as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the short foreshadows films like Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove, and given the context of the civil-rights movement, resonates as a conversation between a complacent white man and a person of color who can hear dog whistles.—
Jeremy Fassler,
Vulture,
2 Mar. 2025
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Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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His cruel caricature of the technocratic, self-important, and sometimes petty bureaucratic culture of the commission is largely accurate.—
Andrew Moravcsik,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2019
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Everyone’s relationship has, yes, seasons, and each couple weathers a few different ones during the show, with smug closeness eroding into terse bitterness, doting affection into resentful frustration.—
Margaret Lyons,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Dissections of power and masculinity that once bristled with adversarial vitality evolved into arid dialectics and windy anecdotes pickled in smug cynicism and lacking in thematic clarity.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Self-directed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-directed. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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