self-reliant
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The State Department's new global health strategy requires recipient governments to share responsibility by increasing their own health spending, with the goal of building durable systems that can eventually be self-reliant.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
“It’s all very self-reliant farmers and ranchers out here. We don’t want any property tax.”
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Meanwhile, China’s leaders don’t want to be a junior partner to the West and have girded the economy to be more self-reliant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Another potential positive: Increased demand for the country’s asset-heavy companies—shipbuilding, shipping, defense, and electric energy—in a push to boost national security and become more self-reliant.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Such organisms, having to be more self-reliant, are also more complicated than viroids and viruses.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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