create
verb (used with object)
to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
self-creating
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a word derived from
create.
Example Sentences
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Marshall lacked the self-creating fire of a Washington, the scattershot genius of a Jefferson and the inner demons of a Hamilton.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
On one level, since there has always been great television, this just means that people — critics, and the rest of you — have been given permission, by the self-creating zeitgeist, to take it seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
The Czech nickname for them is Samorost, which translates roughly as self-creating.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
The story sprang into being of itself, like every work of genius, prompted by a self-creating power.
From The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart by Adelbert von Chamisso
Here it streams, as self-creating, self-fashioning matter, through my veins and muscles, and deposits its fulness outside of me, in the tree, in the plant, in the grass.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
