making
noun
the act of a person or thing that makes.
self-making
-
a word derived from
making.
Example Sentences
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It is a story of motherhood and disjunction, of self-making and villainy, of a remarkable power depicted and deployed on an intimate scale.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
We haven’t even tracked the kind of self-making, cultural transformation of the landscape that got affected by all this writing, by these gangs of folks being at these institutions at that particular time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innocent early stages of preoccupation with womanly self-presentation and self-making.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
Autonomous, freely choosing individuals defined by extensive rights of self-making and self-construction.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
Himself a self-made man, the old merchant worshiped this self-made demigod, the model and unattainable example of every self-making man since his day.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
