invent
verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance.
self-invented
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a word derived from
invent.
Example Sentences
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He’s a self-invented man, an arriviste on the American scene, a “mister nobody from nowhere” trading in the unstable currencies of wishing and seeming.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Oscar, for you, Paul talks about this kind of self-invented genre of “the man in the room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Later, other Modernists, such as Richard Neutra, Rodney Walker, Ray Kappe, and Craig Ellwood—a self-invented architect without a degree, who had been the cost estimator on the Eames House—built houses in the community.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
The godfathers of gangsta, NWA talked about “reality rap”; Drake’s self-invented genre is unreality rap, or perhaps hyper-reality rap.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016
Harry had already attempted a few of the Prince’s self-invented spells.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
