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self-generated

[self-jen-uh-rey-tid, self-]

adjective

  1. made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.



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Mind wandering refers to moments when attention drifts away from what a person is doing and turns inward to self-generated thoughts.

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Up until now she’s been in smaller projects, a lot of them self-generated.

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Along with being the tallest skyscraper in the country, Lotte is also a beacon of resource-aware futurism, using self-generated renewables to generate almost half of its energy requirements.

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The bacteria used the self-generated oxygen to split methane for energy.

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"I don't dream about getting the call for anything because most of my career is self-generated."

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