self-determining
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But it is more interested in the trails he blazed as a Black cultural figure and self-determining professional athlete, and it favors writers, pundits and scholars over basketball players in its interviews.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
“By giving them these spaces, we are really setting up teens to advocate for themselves, and also to live self-determining lives later on, instead of just learning from adults.”
From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2021
The season is advertised as a "thought provoking analysis" of "tough, difficult women" that aims to celebrate "self-determining, independent, defiant, but always charismatic anti-heroines".
From BBC ● May 3, 2019
They are “autonomous and self-determining beings”, he argued, and therefore deserve the right to bodily liberty.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2015
Man is man, in virtue of being a Person, a self-determining will, held accountable to a spiritual Ideal.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
