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self-made man
noun as in person who achieves success on own
Example Sentences
He was a self-made man, and a self-destroyed man—so he wrote his own punch line.
My father was a self-made man as we use the term, but he was more than that – much more.
A self-made man, he had been obliged to postpone marriage and family life to a comparatively advanced age.
Moreover, he is a self-made man and one who deserves great credit for what he has accomplished in a business way.
He is a self-made man who owes his business advancement entirely to his own efforts.
In the truest sense of that word so dear to modern times, Napoleon was a self-made man.
He is a self-made man whose business advancement is attributable entirely to his own well directed efforts.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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