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WORD FOR THE DAY(7/2/18)Autodidact
Merriam Webster
| 7/2/18
Posted on 07/01/2018 5:25:25 PM PDT by left that other site
WORD FOR THE DAY(7/2/18)Autodidact
Word of the Day : May 28th, 2018
Autodidact noun au·to·di·dact \ ˌȯ-tō-ˈdī-ˌdakt , -dī-ˈ , -də-ˈ \
Definition of autodidact
: a self-taught person • was an autodidact who read voraciously
— autodidactic
play \-dī-ˈdak-tik, -də-\ adjective
Recent Examples of autodidact from the Web
• Among the finalists, who range in age from 23 to 77, and span autodidact, emerging, and established, Lee happens to be particularly accomplished; her work can be found in more than 40 public collections around the world.
— amy verner, Vogue, "Dame Helen Mirren Presents Scottish Ceramist Jennifer Lee With the Second Annual Loewe Craft Prize," 4 May 2018
• • Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.
— michael shermer, Scientific American, "No, There Wasn't an Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago," 1 June 2017
TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: autodidact; wftd; wordfortheday
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
MY ENTRY: Some of America's greatest inventors were autodidacts.
To: secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; theDentist; ...
Good Evening everybody!
Tomorrow’s thread tonight...so I don’t forget! :-)
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posted on
07/01/2018 5:27:25 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
When I asked my accountant what I should do about a loss on a stock sale, he said I autodidact it.
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posted on
07/01/2018 5:30:36 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: Ken H
I autodidact nearly everything, because everything I do is related to my profession, which I learned myself. LOL!
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posted on
07/01/2018 5:33:45 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
No matter who is driving, when the SUV crashes, every news story says “Deautodidat.”
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posted on
07/01/2018 6:55:50 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: Robert A Cook PE
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posted on
07/01/2018 7:08:42 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
Even though I do have a college education, I am an autodidact, and have been since I was a kid. If I want to learn something new, I read everything I could on the subject, then start talking to people who actually do that thing, comparing their opinions with what I read. I do this on everything from competitive pistol shooting, to designing FPGA digital logic, to building post-frame buildings.
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posted on
07/01/2018 7:40:10 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
To: left that other site
Word for the day haiku:
Trump-style politics,
with his autodidact skills,
drives the left insane!
To: left that other site
Not sure I’m an autodidact, but I do get a great education on FREE REPUBLIC!
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posted on
07/01/2018 10:37:39 PM PDT
by
MoochPooch
(I'm a compassionate cynic.)
To: backwoods-engineer
Indeed! Our experiences seem similar, although I tend more towards the arts.
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posted on
07/02/2018 3:37:02 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: SFConservative
And I love every minute of it!
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posted on
07/02/2018 3:37:34 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: MoochPooch
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posted on
07/02/2018 3:39:23 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
So, a person who ISN’T self-taught is an ‘autodidn’tact’?..........
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posted on
07/02/2018 6:14:22 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: Red Badger
LOL! That’s one way of looking at it!
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posted on
07/02/2018 6:44:12 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: Robert A Cook PE
I would swear that whenever my autodidact up Inexplicably it has a mind of its own…
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:41:11 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Midyear Day BUMP)
To: left that other site
Donald Trump is an autodidact political genius.
To: mikrofon
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posted on
07/02/2018 1:43:59 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: Heart of Georgia
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posted on
07/02/2018 6:17:05 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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