Words similar to self-made

Example sentences for: self-made

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Leonsis and his two self-made zillionaire business partners will soon own the NBA's Washington Wizards as well.
Hooray for David Plotz's "Domestic Goddess Dethroned," an assessment of Roseanne's self-made downfall.
But consider Beatty as a self-made businessman.
Parker and Leigh are both self-made men and supporters of the British Labor Party, but Parker has worked primarily in Hollywood for almost two decades, whereas Leigh stayed in London to make his low-budget films.
The supreme self-made man, Bonaparte in 1804 became Emperor Napoleon at a coronation ceremony in which he audaciously took the crown of golden laurels from the pope and placed it on his own head.