self-education
Americannoun
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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
Partly this is due, no doubt, to his being tormented with the idea of self-education that he had learnt from Emerson.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
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