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- adjective of a machine That starts by itself
- adjective of a person
energetic andresourceful
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Examples
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Is it to Corporate America's and the economy's benefit to find ways to leverage this self-starting and team-oriented generation?
Christina Vuleta: Millennials: Starting Up Or Starting Over In The Face Of Recessionary Pay Gaps Christina Vuleta 2011
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And Suri outlined the importance of self-starting militants taking the jihad into their own hands: “If a man living in Sweden spots a Jewish security target, he should attack it.”
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Instead, according to court papers and internal emails from the Times read at the inquiry, the paper suggested to the court that the blogger's identity had been obtained via a "self-starting journalistic endeavor" that was largely based on deduction from public sources.
Times of London Misled Court on Email Incident Paul Sonne 2012
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I think the disparity lies in the idea of self-starting vs. start-up.
Christina Vuleta: Millennials: Starting Up Or Starting Over In The Face Of Recessionary Pay Gaps Christina Vuleta 2011
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I think the disparity lies in the idea of self-starting vs. start-up.
Christina Vuleta: Millennials: Starting Up Or Starting Over In The Face Of Recessionary Pay Gaps Christina Vuleta 2011
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Under capitalism without capital, we should encourage people to be self-educating and self-starting, not state-parented.
Capitalism without Capital, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Coro's intense, community-based selection process identifies bright, high-achieving, self-starting individuals with the greatest potential for learning and growth.
Liz Neumark: Can You Feel the Love? Liz Neumark 2011
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In Detroit, the very success of the Big Three squeezed out the kinds of self-starting entrepreneurs that New York had in scores.
Detroit's Decline and The Folly of Light Rail Edward Glaeser 2011
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It strengthens their innate feeling that there is a very direct relationship between how young children develop, and how they build confidence as adolescents to become more self-starting, responsible and collaborative members of society.
John Abbott: We're Born to Learn, Not to Be Taught John Abbott 2011
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Is it to Corporate America's and the economy's benefit to find ways to leverage this self-starting and team-oriented generation?
Christina Vuleta: Millennials: Starting Up Or Starting Over In The Face Of Recessionary Pay Gaps Christina Vuleta 2011
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