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self-ruling

ADJECTIVE

autonomous

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self-governing sovereign

WEAK

free self-determining uncontrolled

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subservient

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dependent subject

ADJECTIVE

democratic

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autonomous constitutional egalitarian free orderly popular

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common communal equal friendly individualistic informal just libertarian populist

ADJECTIVE

free

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autonomous democratic freed independent separate

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emancipated enfranchised liberated sovereign

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at liberty autarchic autonomic individualistic self-directing self-governing sui juris unconstrained unenslaved unregimented

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enslaved occupied restrained suppressed

ADJECTIVE

independent

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autonomous nonpartisan self-reliant self-sufficient separate sovereign

STRONG

absolute

WEAK

autarchic autarchical freewheeling individualistic nonaligned on one's own self-contained self-determining self-governing self-supporting separated unaided unallied unconnected unconstrained uncontrolled unregimented

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WEAK

dependent subordinate subservient

ADJECTIVE

self-contained

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autonomous self-governing self-sufficient self-supporting

WEAK

absolute autarchic autarchical freewheeling individualistic nonaligned nonpartisan on one's own self-determining self-reliant separate separated sovereign unaided unallied unconnected unconstrained uncontrolled unregimented

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dependent

ADJECTIVE

self-supporting

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STRONGEST

autonomous nonpartisan self-contained self-governing self-reliant self-sufficient

WEAK

absolute autarchic autarchical freewheeling individualistic nonaligned on one's own self-determining separate separated sovereign unaided unallied unconnected unconstrained uncontrolled unregimented

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dependent

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US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was not sure whether he would discuss the sensitive topic of self-ruling Taiwan during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

Greenland is an Alaska-sized, self-ruling Danish territory off North America, between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

Taiwan is a self-ruling island of 24 million people that is officially known as the Republic of China.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2023

The self-ruling island has a strict two-week quarantine on arrival and has sealed its borders off to all but residents and citizens, with few exceptions.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2021

In all respects the eventual control was to rest with the people of the Chinese race-nation, united, self-ruling, and determined to survive.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony

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