as in amateur
having skills or knowledge acquired through one's own efforts without formal training
a self-instructed carpenter who does quality work
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Adjective
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Even now, at age 48, Preller remains an unusually competitive amateur hooper.—
Brittany Ghiroli,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025 -
Lillard played Shaggy, one of the amateur detectives who leads alongside the titular talking dog.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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People saw my growth [and related to being] self-taught and wanting to be an idol.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Many of the artists are self-taught.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
27 Aug. 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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“Self-instructed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-instructed. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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