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Recent Examples of self-employed
Sure, not everyone can become self-employed or redesign their career.
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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
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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
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Meanwhile, the job of being a professor became more tenuous and provisional—some 75 percent of faculty are nontenured, many working term to term, with the fate of their employment determined, in part, by student course evaluations.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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There is currently no federal law requiring organizations to give their employees time off to vote during working hours, according to CNN.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Self-employed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-employed. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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