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self-created

  • a word derived from created.
    created
    adjective
    having come into being as the result of action or someone’s creative process.

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“They basically self-created their own market,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Michelle Mone's public life was a self-created fairy story which many in business, politics, and especially the media, bought into.

From BBC ● May 25, 2025

In a telling moment of high camp, he dubbed their touring entourage as the “Benevolent Army of El Primo,” with Cher playing the role of Prima Donna to Sonny’s all-encompassing, self-created moniker His Supremeness.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024

Where we are born and into what kind of family matters — Hunt’s characters are not self-created in the manner most modern Americans like to think we are.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Jule was an orphan like Immie, a self-created person, a person with a mysterious past.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart