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
  • Many of the artists are self-taught.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Both of my brothers were self-taught.
    Nadia Murad, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • The novel dials up the danger for the group of amateur detectives when an old friend from Elizabeth's (played by Mirren in The Thursday Murder Club movie) spy days comes back from her past.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Szczerek is an amateur tennis player and competes in a local tennis league in Poland, The Times reported.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Self-educated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-educated. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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