self-dependent

Example Sentences

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“Being neutral is not being naive. It’s actually a way of thinking that we have to be self-dependent if the war comes,” Ohlsson said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

But the horse population is difficult when you are self-dependent.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Politics isn’t a solitary exercise; yet, life underground and the years of torture left her suspicious and stubbornly self-dependent.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2016

Ashoka fellow Johannes Lindner responded to this by starting Entrepreneurship Education in many Austrian schools and helps students become more entrepreneurial, self-dependent and lose the fear of taking initiative.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013

According to Mill, we are little self-dependent gods, fighting with a malignant and murderous power called Nature, sure, one would think, to be worsted in the struggle.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various