self-employed

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Recent Examples of self-employed Sure, not everyone can become self-employed or redesign their career. Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025 People in this group tend to be self-employed or work for small businesses. Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 In addition, 80% of the income earned by the self-employed came from those making $100,000 a year or more. Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025 It has since been tested on, and refined, by 100 people including students, athletes, parents, the self-employed and workers. Asif Burhan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-employed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-employed
working
Adjective
  • Capable of working 24/7, the humanoid robot can relieve human beings of mundane tasks.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a step back from being working royals, the decision was painted as one that had more to do with mental health than anything.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2025

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“Self-employed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-employed. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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