self-reliant
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"Africa is succeeding. It's the youngest continent in the world… and needs investment to become more self-reliant," he said on Monday, adding that this would create some 250,000 jobs in Africa, and in France.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
“It’s all very self-reliant farmers and ranchers out here. We don’t want any property tax.”
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
The charity further states that it hopes, by providing children in the foster care system with a stable, comfortable environment, it will enable them to grow into “responsible, self-reliant adults.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
These feats help lay the groundwork for its transition into a more self-reliant economy and efforts to rebuild consumer confidence.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
From this Anaximander concluded that human beings arose from other animals with more self-reliant newborns: He proposed the spontaneous origin of life in mud, the first animals being fish covered with spines.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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