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
  • Despite becoming one of the most popular guitarists in the world, Frehley was famously self-taught and never had any formal instruction.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Born Paul Daniel Frehley to a musical family, he was self-taught — and went on to inspire millions with his guitar prowess.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025
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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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  • Investors cheered the improbable rise of the amateur heavy metal drummer and hard-line conservative, who’s expected to increase defense spending, cut taxes, and revive Japan’s nuclear power industry.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Self-educated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-educated. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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