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Sign In Homes March 6, 2025 Once upon a time, decorating meant agonising for weeks over paint charts and making numerous pilgrimages to the DIY shop for tiny sample pots to test out colors at home. Olivia Lidbury, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025 At the same time, Mohan is using the hoopla around the Super Bowl to promote the other major part of YouTube’s business — its DIY creators, who have turned video dispatches from their basements into businesses worth seven and eight figures. Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 Get the Popular Science newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025 Skip an expensive lighting upgrade with this simple DIY swap. Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for DIY

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First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of DIY was in 1955

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“DIY.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DIY. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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