self-governed

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Returning from his Beijing summit with the Chinese leader, the president said that “nothing’s changed” in the U.S. policy toward the democratic, self-governed island.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

But the cards were signed by both teams at the end, meaning the result would stand in a sport that is proudly self-governed by the players.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Taiwan’s religious diversity and vitality forms a kind of subsoil of the self-governed island’s identity and values.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

The self-governed enclave had 10,000 fighters at its disposal according to Azerbaijan, whose own army - estimated at over 120,000-strong by Western experts - dwarfed it.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023

It is a small town in itself, and to a large extent self-dependent and self-governed.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice