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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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
He is instead a 37-year-old stay-at-home dad, taking care of 1-year-old Bailey and trying to sell self-invented products by phone while his wife, Arin, is at work.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2018
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
Chemists also used a bewildering variety of symbols and abbreviations, often self-invented.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
