self-supporting
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Our own children are successful and self-supporting, and I don’t want to add my niece’s son to the list of people we feel financially responsible for simply because his mother has made poor choices.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
That law requires the feds to provide the state 105 million acres, to become economically self-supporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
To redeem the promise of abolition, Congress acted to alleviate poverty, help newly freed individuals become self-supporting citizens, and ensure access to education.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2024
But if it can solve some of these problems, the discoveries could help others learn how to live in a more self-supporting way.
From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 12, 2024
Society is not a brand-new order of things supervening upon and superseding a state of nature, where the individual was entirely self-supporting.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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