self-help

Example Sentences

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They live in the realm of self-help and of sport.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

His legacy will live on in the Woodson Center he founded in 1981 to promote self-help solutions in low-income neighborhoods.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Across party lines, governments now promise a familiar basket of benefits: pensions, direct cash transfers, scholarships, free or subsidised electricity, cheap foodgrain, self-help group support for women and allowances for unemployed youth.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

He logged mass-market self-help books on his Goodreads: Malcolm Gladwell, James Clear, you name it.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

In the decades that followed, Colored people strove to educate themselves— organizing, creating self-help groups, running for office, fighting to change laws, founding schools, and so on.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson