self-directing
- a word derived from direct.
Example Sentences
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Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2012
Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2010
Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have never been afraid of storms and I can never understand why timid folk should speak of them as of a living, self-directing force bent purposely on human destruction.
From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill
In each case an independent, self-directing, expanding state was built around an urban center.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
