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
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Largely self-taught, Cole was a relentless observer of material fact.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026 -
The Digest Feminist, self-taught, and belatedly recognized French artist Raymonde Arcier has died at 86.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
2 June 2026
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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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Inside the house, a 33-year-old amateur gunsmith who goes by the pseudonym Yeezy wondered what to do.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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In hacker circles, such moves are considered amateur mistakes.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
17 June 2026
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“Self-educated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-educated. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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