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This L.A. was the self-invented mirage city of unflagging ballyhoo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

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

Audrey Hepburn flits across the screen as Holly Golightly, Truman Capote’s self-invented, self-professed “wild thing,” in this Blake Edwards classic.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2016

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