self-starting
Example Sentences
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Boyce’s Marcus is a pivotal character in Season 2 due to his quiet dedication, natural affinity for baking, and self-starting passion to be great, not simply good.
From Salon • Jan. 22, 2024
It does not have any academic instructors; the teachers are the self-starting students who have their eyes set on a job in Big Tech.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2021
Much like fellow Latinx newcomers Cuco and Kali Uchis, Apollo is part of a rising generation of self-starting Spanglish-language artists who have captivated pop fans with their bicultural cool.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2020
“I love you, Harold, but it’s high time you got one of those self-starting brains.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2016
Highly trained "employees" would take on much greater autonomy, being self-starting, and self-motivating, moving from place to place, task to task, with great speed and fluidity.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
