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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Adjective
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Sullivan trained her nose classically at a famed school in Versailles, while Hendin (an artist and designer) was self-taught.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Born in 1970 in Herber City, Utah, Allen is largely self-taught, having begun his artistic career by whittling figures and selling them from atop an ironing board on the streets of SoHo in New York.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Over the past decade, she’s cultivated a reputation for a new kind of defiant, autodidactic pop stardom.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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As groups of amateur boxers stream into the Paris gym for class, Khelif slips away to grab a bite at her favorite Algerian café.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Most of the stars observed by Kepler were fainter than magnitude 13 in our sky, so HD 137010b's star is an outlier at magnitude 10, bringing it in range of even 6-inch (150mm) amateur telescopes.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Self-educated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-educated. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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