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 want a democracy that provides them with equality as self-determining citizens.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2019
If Edwards makes mind the efficient cause of volition, what becomes of his famous argument against the self-determining power, by which he reduces it to the absurdity of an infinite series of volitions?
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
