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Returns for 2019, however, “must be filed on paper, whether self-prepared or submitted with the assistance of a paid preparer,” he said.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

His self-prepared defense, it was said, boiled down to "I was mistaken, I am sorry."

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was forced to defer his first self-prepared breakfast until he had reached water, and a less dangerous place than the wild-oat field to build his first camp fire.

From A Waif of the Plains by Harte, Bret

As to the actual preparation for exhibition the geese are practically self-prepared.

From Ducks and Geese by Lamon, Harry M.

Not the less, however, we maintain, that whilst in fact our ruin was self-prepared, come it would, sooner or later, from the necessity of Affghan society, had the actual occasion of that ruin been wanting.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various