self-education
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The burden of electronic health records and increased productivity requirements take time away from self-education.
From Salon • May 23, 2025
For the longest time, I’d been thinking about a character who took a childhood pledge of self-education to pursue a dream, and once she’s achieved it, the dream morphs into a nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023
As she embarks on an alternately aggressive and awkward sentimental self-education, she’s working from a depressingly limited road map, as far as her own pleasure and desires are concerned.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022
Amid this self-education, Pitre found that just intonation samplers bored him because they were more concerned with mechanics than music.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021
His stay at Bertin's had been of good service in giving him the mental equipment, the self-education necessary to begin the struggle for artistic independence.
From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by Fletcher, John Gould
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