self-directed
Britishadjective
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Hargitay has had a great run recently: Earlier this month, she won two Emmys for her self-directed 2025 documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” which memorializes her mother, Jayne Mansfield.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
And when they turned to humour, it was almost always self-directed: joking about the kilometres logged fleeing baton charges or the absurdity of filming an outfit reveal moments before running into tear gas.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I also have $150,000 in a self-directed workplace account at another brokerage and an emergency fund with roughly two years’ worth of living expenses in the bank.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The explosion of interest in self-directed AI agents has led to surging demand for CPUs that Qualcomm could market for data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Learning in our family was entirely self-directed: you could learn anything you could teach yourself, after your work was done.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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