self-sufficient
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Lutnick responded: "Producing revenue finally. This is their year. Next 12 months they need to become economically self-sufficient."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Anecdotally, for straight women at least, one big “if” is finding a partner who they love, who is self-sufficient, and who would make a good father.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
“It is agentic-first, it compresses timelines from months to days and it is designed so customers are self-sufficient when a deployment ends,” Amazon said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The flats are powered by other, renewable energy sources too, making them "almost self-sufficient", Kiltorp said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The economic basis of Polynesian societies consisted of more or less self-sufficient households, but some islands also supported guilds of hereditary part-time craft specialists.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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