self-dependent

Example Sentences

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“Being neutral is not being naive. It’s actually a way of thinking that we have to be self-dependent if the war comes,” Ohlsson said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

But the horse population is difficult when you are self-dependent.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Politics isn’t a solitary exercise; yet, life underground and the years of torture left her suspicious and stubbornly self-dependent.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2016

Ashoka fellow Johannes Lindner responded to this by starting Entrepreneurship Education in many Austrian schools and helps students become more entrepreneurial, self-dependent and lose the fear of taking initiative.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013

She is a self-dependent state, all of whose resources are expended on the development of her own prosperity, and expended with the most scrupulous honesty and economy.

From The Character of the British Empire by Muir, Ramsay