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
“Sigh, Gone” does not question its central premise that assimilation should be the desired goal for self-making and self-preservation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020
It is a tale of self-making that gives its last pages to Jones’s mom, and spends its most beautiful language on his love for her.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
Autonomous, freely choosing individuals defined by extensive rights of self-making and self-construction.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
Peter Stansbury Pape had emerged from the West of his upgrowing and self-making with two projects in view—one grave, one much less so.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
