independently

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With no mention of children, I understand that you are concerned about your future if and/or when you become unable to live independently.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

She also gradually built up her confidence to be able to travel there independently.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

The analyst also points to rising competitive pressure, with one rival now selling sonar systems independently and customers questioning the “cost of synthetic aperture sonar relative to the rapidly falling costs of autonomous vessels.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Researchers say this points to an example of "parallel evolution," where similar environmental pressures produce similar outcomes independently.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond