self-education
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
NYWell’s search engine and social media ads link to a Web site that provides assistance ranging from self-education and online peer support to more intensive professional care.
From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021
The church not only promoted education through the pulpit and Sunday school, but through its emphasis on the Bible unconsciously stimulated the efforts toward self-education.
From The History of the Negro Church by Woodson, Carter Godwin
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